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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...
entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...
of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...
The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author Jam...
would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...
results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...
community. This is when inner cities begin to influence public policy to such a point that "efforts to reverse drug prohibition f...
and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...
Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...
Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...
any demographic characteristics. Considering these principles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the fact that drug a...
difference plays a part in substance use and abuse. In other words, females are more inclined to be judged by their peers and pare...
and booked for larceny or theft; more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the i...
Another source indicates that, "Although the number of drug-related homicides has been decreasing in recent years, drugs still rem...
about drug use and abuse. That is, while alcohol for example is alone not deadly if used reasonably, the alcohol seemed to reduce ...
in which "many public schools have adopted a policy of zero tolerance toward drug use, weapon possession and sexual harassment on ...
it is taken up and released again, a process called re-uptake (Ogbru and Marks, 2008). A balance is reached when the re-uptake and...
In ten pages this paper examines various perspective regarding the legalization of drugs in the US. Twelve sources are cited in t...
and adolescents (Mahler, 2005). Of every twenty children, in fact, one has struggled with severe depression at one point or anoth...
This 5 page report discusses the fact that the majority of the population is aware that there is a serious problem in America wi...
research shows that the majority of women, and also a percentage of men, who seek treatment for substance abuse disorders indicate...
In ten pages this study examines intimate relationships and the incidence of psychological abuse and includes causes, abuser trait...
sometimes illusive. Generally, the characterization of elder abuse is that it does occur in the United States and while hard to de...
the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...
Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...
(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...
In ten pages this paper examines physical and substance abuse and infidelity as cause of married couples getting divorced. There ...
Socio-economic pressures may have a strong influence on the way in which children are treated within the family: the stresses of s...
In seven pages child abuse is examined through a sociological assessment of its root causes. Five sources are cited in the biblio...
our complex world. Lets look at a few of them. Gang membership: Teams at several universities collaborated in studies of the Caus...