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to draft a 2-page memo to the assisted living facility noting the increasing problem of prescription substance abuse among the elderly. In this memo, please describe some of the most pressing physical, cognitive, and socioemotional concerns in the elderly that could give rise to substance abuse problems. Also, note in this memo how the problem of elderly substance abuse is often overlooked or not deemed important because of a patient’s age, this despite the fact that many folks are living in to their late 90s. So, a person in their 60s is still likely to have many happy years left.



Assignment: The Pain of Prescription Drug Abuse. It is difficult, in part, working as a counselor because many people are intimidated by a counselor’s training and insights and are apprehensive when having a drink or two around a counselor at a cocktail party.

It is even more difficult when people feel compelled to treat a counselor as their personal therapist. Assume you are a counselor (this shouldn’t be too difficult). Despite years of successfully keeping your work and personal life separate, a good friend of yours asks for help. Your friend confides in you that his wife has recently developed dependency on several prescription drugs.

Your friend’s wife was involved in a car accident about a year ago and hurt her neck and shoulders. Initially, the pain was debilitating and was aggressively treated with OxyContin. The injury significantly affected her quality of life, and she was placed on bed rest for several months. Due to her age (patient is in her mid-late 60s), she recovered much slower than she had thought, which added additional stress.

After months of physical therapy, she seemed to be improving but was dissatisfied with the weight she had gained because of the pain medication and the sedentary lifestyle. In addition, she found it difficult to exercise because she always felt tired. She was additionally prescribed a stimulant, Adderall, to help her lose weight and regain her lost energy.

It is over a year since the accident, and she seems to have completely recovered but continues to take OxyContin and Adderall. Your friend further explains that his wife complains of severe pain and takes more medication than what is recommended. Additionally, she goes to several doctors and has the same prescriptions filled at different pharmacies; he knows this because he often picks up her prescriptions. Although he appreciates her weight loss, frequently complimenting her on her appearance, he is concerned that she is taking too much of Adderall. She also seems less interested in her usual recreational activities, misses a lot of work, and has lost interest in sex.

Although your friend wants you to do your best to help his wife, he requests you to keep it a secret. He specifically asks you to avoid any sort of a written record and to not file paperwork with the insurance company. The rationale for this request is because his wife and he lives in a very nice assisted living facility that has a 5-year waiting list and if the personnel found out that his wife had a drug problem, they may lose their housing.

Due to your influence as the liaison for a new federal and state government-mandated task force, you could probably find a way to respect your friend’s request; however, you have significant concerns about using your influence to help a friend. In addition, you have serious concerns not only about the issues surrounding his request for secrecy but also with his behavior. Instead of working with the patient directly, you decided to draft a 2-page memo to the assisted living facility noting the increasing problem of prescription substance abuse among the elderly. In this memo, please describe some of the most pressing physical, cognitive, and socioemotional concerns in the elderly that could give rise to substance abuse problems. Also, note in this memo how the problem of elderly substance abuse is often overlooked or not deemed important because of a patient’s age, this despite the fact that many folks are living in to their late 90s. So, a person in their 60s is still likely to have many happy years left.

Essay Instructions: The thesis statement for this thesis is to be,
"The Universities? student body has a higher rate of prescription drug abuse than the national average." I would like the first 9-10 pages researching the topic of prescription drug abuse, the research porition should include factors such as age, gender, economic status, possibly comparing the U.S to other countries and so on. I would also like figures and or tables used if needed to show or eplain certain aspects of the paper. The remainder of the paper (6-7) pages is to be about my experiment. The experiment is to be a survey of University students. It should contain methods and materials, results, discussion and summary sections. There should also be tables and or graphs to explain the resutls of the survey. I will past a copy of the survey at the end of this section. I would like the results of the survey to disagree with my thesis statement. Finally I would like ~ 13 sources. I would like 7 of the sources to be scholarly journals published in the APA style format (or at least the majority in APA). I am also going list the titles of 3 books that I would like to be included as sources if possible. The first book is titled "Drub Abuse Sourcebook" Edited by Catherine Ginther. 2) Women Under the Influence The national Center of Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. 3) "Prescription Drug Abuse The hidden Epidemic". I would like this to be emailed as an attachment written in microsoft word. I would also like to take advantage of the free bibliography. The survey that is to be used is as follows. The questions are yes or no answers.
Circle Age Group
18-21 22-25 26-30 30 to 40 40 and older Gender_______

___ Have you been taking sleeping pills every day for more than three months?

___ Do you sometimes take pills in order to make like your situation more bearable?

___ Have you tried to stop taking pills and felt vulnerable or frightened?

___ Have you tried to stop taking pills and felt your body start to tremble or shake?

___ Do you continue to take pills even though the medical reason for taking them is no
longer present

___ Do you think pills are more important than family and friends?

___ Are you mixing pills with wine, liquor or beer?

___ Are you taking one kind of pill to combat the effects of another pill?

___ Do you take pills to get high and to have fun?

___ Do you take pills when you?re upset or to combat loneliness?

___ Do you feel happy if your doctor writes a prescription for drugs that change your
mood?

___ Do you visit several doctors to get the same prescription?

___ Are you taking more pills to achieve the same effect you used to experience with
smaller doses?

___ Do you find it difficult to fulfill work obligations when you?re taking pills?

___ Do you ever promise yourself that you will stop taking pills, and then break the
promise?

___ Do you know of anyone that may have a prescription drug problem.

Essay Instructions: Social Justice Essay

PLEASE ??" Follow outline/format exactly and in order when writing this essay

1) Discuss your understanding of the social work value of social justice

Helpful information: Social Work Value: Social Justice
Ethical Principle: Social workers challenge social injustice.
Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people. Social workers’ social change efforts are focused primarily on issues of poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and other forms of social injustice. These activities seek to promote sensitivity to and knowledge about oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers strive to ensure access to needed information, services, and resources; equality of opportunity; and meaningful participation in decision making for all people.

http://www.socialworkers.org/pressroom/features/issue/peace.asp


2) Identify a key social justice issue in today’s society that is important to your future clients. (My future clients will be those addicted to drugs and alcohol)

Helpful information: Because I am doing my internship at a drug addiction recovery facility where treatment and intervention is provided to clients who are struggling with alcohol and drug addiction I would like the essay (my social justice issue) to be on the Social Justice Issue surrounding Ohio's prescription drug abuse epidemic


3) Discuss the implications of this issue for social service organizations and/or a community in which you plan to work.

You can either write about the implications of this issue in the social service organizations in Ohio or specifically in the community in which I am currently doing my internship ??" which is Chardon, Ohio. You can obviously Google this community or choose to Google the research for Ohio and the implications for social service organizations throughout the state.


A. Describe what social justice means for your practice with organizations and communities in regard to your selected social work issue.

B. Use Kirst-Ashman and Hull concepts of the target system, change system and action system etc. to describe macro strategies you might use for achieving social justice around your target issue.

Helpful information: Kirst-Ashman & Hull concepts of target system, change system and action system-
The Target System ??" the target system is the system that social workers must modify or influence in order to reach their goals and have client’s benefit from the planned change process. In macro practice this usually involves an organization or community; it might be in that the agency in which you work needs to improve some of its policies or services. Likewise, your community may need to provide some new services that citizens really need (for example) a drug rehabilitation program or a crime prevention effort) , Consider supportive services such as hot meal delivery, part time homemaker services, or community support groups do not exist. In this case you might consider to target the system, either agency or community, to develop such resources. The concepts of organizations and community are broad. They can refer to very small organizations or communities (such as small field offices, isolated church groups, or villages) or to systems that are huge entities (such as city, county, state, or federal government units). Similarly, a community in its broad sense might be the citizens of an entire state. Systems can be virtually any size. Therefore the target system is any system that macro intervention intends to change.
The Change Agent System - Within a macro practice perspective, the change agent is the individual who initiates the macro change process. In our context, you are the change agent because this book intends to teach you how to implement macro level change. You might seek changes such as improving agency effectiveness or enhancing a community’s quality of life. Later on you might gain the support of, and join in coalitions with others who also believe in the proposed macro change. Then you, as a single change agent might become part of a larger system. Whether you undertake macro change by yourself or join with others, you are part of the action system described next.
The Action System ??" The action system includes those people who agree and are committed to working together in order to attain the proposed macro change. We have established that sometimes you alone will be the action system for the change effort. Other times you will find it more useful to join with others to help implement a macro change.
Change Agent: “A helper who is specifically employed for the purpose of creating planned change.”
Client System: “An individual, family, group, organization or community that in addition to being the expected beneficiary of service is a system that asks for help and engages the services of a social worker as a change agent.
Target System: “The people the change agent needs to change or influence in order to accomplish his or her goals.”
Action System: “Those with whom the social worker deals with in his or her efforts to accomplish the tasks and achieve the goals of the change effort.”

C.Discuss the potential personal and professional risks involved with striving for social justice around your target issue.

D.Discuss what social work ethics might arise from your work and how you would analyze the situation in the context of these ethics.
Helpful information: http://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/code/code.asp

4) Provide a summarizing conclusion of your thoughts on your target issue.


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Essay Instructions: Needed annotated bibliography due 2/12/2011. I am doing a capstone project on prescription drug abuse. So, obviously this is the topic for annotated bibliography. I can send several journal articles that I obtained from online university library. I can also send rubric for assignment.
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