Active drug users—whom I here roughly categorize as habituated, addicted, or dependent (HAD) users who are not currently inclined to abandon their use of such drugs1—may desire individually or collectively to assert themselves in the wider social world of work and social policy. Drug-dependent individuals may seek work in harm reduction centers or as custodians, accountants, or doctors. Activis...

The Restorative Integral Support (RIS) model is a comprehensive, whole person approach to addressing adversity and trauma. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Kaiser Permanente reveals a relationship between childhood trauma and adult health and social problems. The current empirical case study presents the Committee on the Shelte...

Keywords-business networks; communication networks; social interaction; spatial statistics; stationary point processes; economy; industrial firms; Abstract—In this paper we report evidence from the Italian industrial sectors whereby firms that buy and sell are spatially distributed with a pattern that reflects the microeconomic powers at play. The main finding is that firms are neither clustere...

REG BAKER Market Strategies International and Task Force Chair STEPHEN J. BLUMBERG U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention J. MICHAEL BRICK Westat MICK P. COUPER Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan MELANIE COURTRIGHT DMS Insights | uSamp J. MICHAEL DENNIS Knowledge Networks DON DILLMAN Washington State University MARTIN R. FRANKEL Baruch College, CUNY PHILIP GARLAND Su...

Drawing upon a theoretical approach that emphasizes the importance of ideas and political processes in policymaking, the focus of this piece is on how a sociological concept – social exclusion – has been mobilized and manipulated by the EU. Tracing both the sociological and social policy ‘lives’ of the concept, the paper develops an explanation for the EU’s turn to social exclusion that centers...

canola producers in the province of qazvin were surveyed in order to explore their perceptionabout technical skills influencing the production of canola. based on the perception ofrespondents, the results showed that the contact with agricultural service centers would encouragefarmers to produce canola. the results showed that there were relationship between perception ofrespondents about canol...

  Background: The employees of welfare centers, due to the special conditions of their work, may be exposed to excessive occupational stress and workload . Thus, the aim of this study was to determine the effect of workload and occupational stress on the general health of female employees of public welfare centers.   Materials and Methods: This was a correlational research on 63 fe...