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  • The term Constructive Coercion essentially covers a number of different strategies that you and other friends and family members can use that are more forceful than those used to just convince an addict to enter treatment.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • The term Constructive Coercion essentially covers a number of different strategies that you and other friends and family members can use that are more forceful than those used to just convince an addict to enter treatment.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • The term Constructive Coercion essentially covers a number of different strategies that you and other friends and family members can use that are more forceful than those used to just convince an addict to enter treatment.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • Although there are a variety of ways in which addicts can be coerced into entering treatment, they all fall into just two general areas—those that you and other friends or family members can exercise, which I call Constructive Coercion, and those that can only be exercised by the courts, which I call Legal Coercion.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • Although there are a variety of ways in which addicts can be coerced into entering treatment, they all fall into just two general areas—those that you and other friends or family members can exercise, which I call Constructive Coercion, and those that can only be exercised by the courts, which I call Legal Coercion.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • Although there are a variety of ways in which addicts can be coerced into entering treatment, they all fall into just two general areas—those that you and other friends or family members can exercise, which I call Constructive Coercion, and those that can only be exercised by the courts, which I call Legal Coercion.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • As Shoven describes it, in 1942, when he was an emeritus professor at Yale, Irving Fisher, together with his brother Herbert, published a 277-page book entitled Constructive Income Taxation that was subtitled "A Proposal for Reform."

    Taxonomical Equivalence Part I Lawrence A. Hunter 2010

  • Christ himself has been well called a Constructive

    The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908

  • This female says, "'Constructive' Eugenics ... shows us that we are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all ..."

    I feel sorry for Paul Krugman.... 2008

  • "Constructive" Eugenics aims to arouse the enthusiasm or the interest of the people in the welfare of the world fifteen or twenty generations in the future.

    The Pivot of Civilization Margaret Sanger 1924

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