He was candid about his frequent attempts to overcome his drug problems, telling the ABC News program "Nightline" in 2007 that his habits had ruined his career "to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself".
Millions of young adults are illiterate, and with no functional economy to work for, they travel to the west seeking education and employment.
In Iraq, Washington at least has the support of allies on the ground, including the army, affiliated Shiite Muslim militias and the spirited if ill-equipped Kurdish peshmerga force, not to mention a functional government to work with.
Whether a lifestyle intervention will improve outcomes, including physiological (muscle mass maintenance), fitness, psychological (QoL and depression), smoking status, inflammatory markers, and functional (return to work).
Patients who were not at fault, or perceived that they were not at fault despite contradictory police reporting, experienced significantly poorer functional, return to work, and health status outcomes at 12 months postinjury.
After adjusting for key potential confounders, the group who were not at fault according to the police and the patient, were at higher risk of poorer functional, return to work and health status outcomes when compared to the group where fault for the crash was attributed to the patient (or their vehicle) by the police and the patient.
It is light, airy and purely functional: a place to work rather than rest.
"Not only are the products functional and easy to work with, they are sustainable and I can afford them".
I remained "functional" – I went to work wearing clean clothes and a smile, while I battled with depression and little by little climbed out of the ruins of my financial catastrophe.
I have a lot of patients who were wheelchair-bound and unemployed become functional and return to work," said Dr Al Muderis, who is an associate professor at school of medicine at the University of Notre Dame Australia.
