Essays 31 - 60
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
In a paper consisting of ten pages the impact of parental alcohol abuse upon adolescent children's behavior and effects upon their...
entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...
grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...
"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...
(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...
In seven pages this paper examines an alcohol abuse screening too, the AUDIT, which consists of 10 questions and how it can be cut...
drinkers life (work, marriage, finances) is not too great, it generally can be reversed or at least prevented from progressing aft...
The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...
research shows that the majority of women, and also a percentage of men, who seek treatment for substance abuse disorders indicate...
engage in behavior that puts them and others at risk. In addition, one can see that many binge drinkers may well be...
In five pages this research paper discusses the correlation between sex and using alcohol as it pertains to adolescents and teens....
In eight pages adolescents addicted to alcohol and drugs are examined from a counseling perspective in which addiction is defined ...
to drugs, when placed in water is to swim vigorously and frantically claw at the side of the container in an effort to escape (Rib...
important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...
But in the old days, it was rare for someone to come to work stoned on drugs or for managers to have to worry about cokeheads in t...
The way in which using alcohol and drugs like marijuana serve as a gateway to harder drug use and abuse is the focus of this 5 pag...
"Why is it," Aristotle asked in the fourth century B.C., "that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are...
attacks, visual hallucinations, and paranoid delusions" are withdrawal symptoms of heavy drinking (Anonymous, 1999, PG). In the m...
In this paper consisting of six pages the DSM IV's role in both diagnosing and treating alcohol abuse in terms of the alcoholics a...
In a paper consisting of eleven pages the increased incidences of women and alcohol abuse and how this mandates federal, state, an...
In five pages it is argued that educating individuals of the effects of alcohol has a greater impact than abstinence as far as abu...
types of communication regardless of the formal or informal status. For example when we have a conversation the way a person stand...
prevalence of teenage alcohol abuse are major public health problems in the United States. Nobody denies the simple fact that th...
the current status of the problem of associated violence within this sport due largely in part to drugs and/or alcohol. Soccer S...
B. Abuse of illicit drugs increasing among seniors. C. Prescription drugs. 1. Seniors take many more drugs than younger adults. 2....
interviewed more than 40 recovered and active alcoholic women across the United States: young, old; black, white; sisters, mothers...
and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...
The questionnaire can be used in a written form or in web-based programming, which allows for the quick scoring of the test and al...
This paper first describes 2 cases of abuse, one that pertains to elder abuse and the other to child sexual abuse. Then, the write...