Drug rehabilitation

Response: Thank you for reviewing East Carolina University’s (ECU’s) “Institutional Response” to the site visit report of our Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Counseling and Administration, Rehabilitation and Clinical Counseling Concentration, program, housed in ECU’s College of Allied Health Sciences, application for Extending CACREP accreditation Doctoral Rehabilitation Counselor Education programs under the CACREP 2016 accreditation standards for doctoral programs. We have organized our Institutional…

occupational considerations in rehabilitation counselling including standards for practice and conceptualisation of self in current or anticipated professional life. Rehabilitation counselling is an allied health specialist profession that operates within a vocational rehabilitation framework to assist people with disability and injury to maximise independence and inclusion in the community (Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors (ASORC), 2017). Further, rehabilitation counselling…

This is a 54-year-old male with a 08/28/08 date of injury. A specific mechanism of injury has not been described. 12/11/15 Pain Management Follow-up and Appeal to UR indicated that the patient presented with complains of chronic pain in his low back and ankles together with feet bilaterally. The pain is 4/10-scale level. He is having chiropractic treatment and PT of the lumbar spine, which is increasing his ROM and functional capacity status. He is taking Norco 10/325 mg an Gabapentin 300 mg…

The most notable gaps I’ve seen in addiction recovery treatments for women are a lack of connection and a lack of assisted social reintegration. As renowned speaker and author Dr. Gabor Maté explains in his lectures, the opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it’s connection. Women need to make real connections, both spiritually and socially, before they are able to return to the pressures of an everyday life while maintaining their sobriety. Moreover, management in the recovery environment…

Dr. Milos R. Popovic and MyndMove With the constant advancements in the world of science and technology, Canada is very fortunate to be responsible some of the greatest inventions, and have some of the world’s leading scientists. Although we have an abundance of intelligent innovators in the field of biology, one in particular stood out to me; Dr. Milos R. Popovic. He is the founder of MyndTec., and the man behind the leading Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) therapy product, MyndMove.…

Subject was received into the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR) on February 16, 2000 for burglary in the 1st as a third striker. Subject arrived at CCI on July 7, 2015. Subject will be housed in Administrative Segregation Unit (ASU) placement in Facility A Housing Unit 6 cell B 106L, for self-expressed safety concerns. Subject explained that he was assigned as a porter in Facility A Housing Unit 3, and that Officer Lopez caught him with a kite/note that he was…

Group Substance Abuse Counseling Introduction According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes individuals have been using psychoactive substances since ancient times. The first historical records show that cannabis was used in 4000 B.C. in Central Asia and North West China. The use of the coca leaf, which holds the primary ingredient to make cocaine, was used as early as 3000 B.C in the Andeans Mountain range in South America. One of the oldest uses of psychoactive substances dates…

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Psychotropic Drugs for Dementia Residents As per World health organization (2015), there are 47.5 million people who has dementia and there are 7.7 million new cases every year. In our dementia care unit, our residents will receive benevolent expert care to prolong and fulfil their quality of life. As a newly appointed operations management team in our dementia care facility, we continuously aim to provide and improve our quality of care to our dementia residents…

President Nixon declared a “war on drugs”, and increased the size of federal drug control agencies. To help combat the use of drugs, mandatory sentencing was implemented, which granted for a first time offense a minimum sentence of 5 years in a federal prison. By the Reagan presidency, the number of non-violent drug offenders imprisoned skyrocketed from 50,000 to over 400,000 by 1997 (“A Brief History of the Drug war”). As a result of the incarcerations many families have…

change in criminal justice policy would be nonviolent drug offenders. It's important to note that the nonviolent drug offenders would only be drug users, not dealers. The proposed policy decriminalizes drug use and instead would impose fines and a probationary period for violators. By decriminalizing drug use, real change may occur. Instead of throwing addicts in jail, there will be a greater emphasis on rehabilitation. Because nonviolent drug offenders often fall victim to circumstance, they…