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In seventeen pages this paper discusses substance abuse in teens with the emphasis upon Alaska and what changes can be enacted by ...
and Substance Abuse at Columbia University released a national survey in which 22% of teenagers said it is likely that they will u...
In five pages a journal article by Clark and Bukstein is reviewed regarding teens, substance abuse, comorbidity, as well as negati...
In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...
of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...
The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...
Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...
Drug abuse, regardless of the type of drug, has a very negative effect on the body and brain of the user and abuser. Chemicals fro...
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...
prevention of alcohol abuse from a community perspective has made Sacramento, California a precedent setting city whereby extended...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
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....
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...
and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...
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...
because programs at companies that combine substance abuse education and support, along with testing, tend to have far better resu...
had fewer suicidal thoughts than those who used drugs and engaged in sex (2004). Those who used marijuana, and perhaps other illeg...
long ago Dr. Phil railed against a teenager for smoking pot every day. There are mixed messages on television about drugs. While t...
results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...
would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...
pricing adolescents out of the alcohol market. As Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow state, the theory of supply and deman...
similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...
(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...
consumption is risky as well (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Food does absorb some of the alcohol. Also, in addition to alcoh...
as their economic base shrinks, poor, inner-city, minority neighborhoods become increasingly marginalized, disenfranchised, and po...
alcohol prior to being 20 years of age and most of these individuals state (47 percent) state that they began substance abuse with...
The utilitarian philosophy of John Stuart Mill is applied to these topics in a paper consisting of 5 pages. Three sources are cit...