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Older Adults and Substance Abuse

B. Abuse of illicit drugs increasing among seniors. C. Prescription drugs. 1. Seniors take many more drugs than younger adults. 2....

Alcohol Abuse and Women

interviewed more than 40 recovered and active alcoholic women across the United States: young, old; black, white; sisters, mothers...

Alcohol Abuse Among College Students and Risk Factors

fraternity or sorority is already biologically or psychosocially geared toward alcohol abuse, then this simply strikes a match to ...

Case Scenario/Alcohol Abuse

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

Alcohol as a Drug Discussion

juice etc. This mixture of yeast and juice is left to ferment for several weeks in a container that does not allow air to enter, ...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

The Nursing Issue of Drug and Alcohol Abuse among Nurses

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

Alcohol Abuse and Public Health

(Time for coordinated action on alcohol, 2004). It is particularly dangerous to young people, who are more likely than anyone else...

Drugs and Their Negative Impact on Teens

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...

CAGE Questionnaire

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...

Link Between Depression and Creativity

"Why is it," Aristotle asked in the fourth century B.C., "that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are...

Teen Drug and Alcohol Abuse Countering

and Substance Abuse at Columbia University released a national survey in which 22% of teenagers said it is likely that they will u...

Alcohol Abuse and the Film Leaving Las Vegas

attacks, visual hallucinations, and paranoid delusions" are withdrawal symptoms of heavy drinking (Anonymous, 1999, PG). In the m...

Drugs and Alcohol as 'Gateway Drugs'

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...

Social, Psychological, and Physical Relationships Between Sex and Alcohol

In five pages this research paper discusses the correlation between sex and using alcohol as it pertains to adolescents and teens....

Injuries in the Workplace Caused by Workers

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...

Soccer, Drugs, and Violence

the current status of the problem of associated violence within this sport due largely in part to drugs and/or alcohol. Soccer S...

Women, Social Policy, and Alcohol Treatment

In a paper consisting of eleven pages the increased incidences of women and alcohol abuse and how this mandates federal, state, an...

Alcohol and Teens

prevalence of teenage alcohol abuse are major public health problems in the United States. Nobody denies the simple fact that th...

Communication and Alcoholics

types of communication regardless of the formal or informal status. For example when we have a conversation the way a person stand...

Fracture Healing and the Impacts of Smoking and Alcoholism

(Shaheen, 1996, p. 94). In adults, the most common elbow injury is a radial head fracture, affecting also the surrounding ...

Trends and Statistics on Drug Use

and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...

The Problem of Alcohol Abuse - Impact in Abusers and Families

Alcohol poses a direct risk as a result of the physical impact it has on the body. The use of alcohol is often seen as a social ...

Issues in Addiction and Maladaptive Behavior

important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...

Emotionally Abused Spouses

There is a great deal written about both physical and emotional spousal abuse. There are many empirical studies published about ef...

John Stuart Mill, Legal Age Limit for Alcohol Drinking, Drug Abuse, and Pornography

The utilitarian philosophy of John Stuart Mill is applied to these topics in a paper consisting of 5 pages. Three sources are cit...

Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Corporate Management

In eight pages a variety of methods regarding substance abuse in the workplace are discussed and include detection and eradication...

Teen Alcohol and Drug Abuse

In seventeen pages this paper discusses substance abuse in teens with the emphasis upon Alaska and what changes can be enacted by ...

Women and Impact of Abusing Alcohol and Drugs

Gastric metabolism is almost nonexistent for alcoholic women (Kilbourne, 1992; p. 4). Thus far, most research on alcoholism has ...