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Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Australia, Alcohol Consumption and the Impact of Combining Advertising and Sports

"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...

Sports Training and Expectancy Theory

forthcoming if s/he performs as the manager expects (Expectancy Theory, n.d.). "Vroom suggests that an employees beliefs ab...

Alcohol and Depression

drinkers life (work, marriage, finances) is not too great, it generally can be reversed or at least prevented from progressing aft...

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....

Substance Abuse in Adolescents and the Predictor of Childhood Sexual Abuse

In twenty pages a research proposal is presented in which the correlation between substance abuse in adolescents and being sexuall...

Alcoholism's Social and Psychological Effects

In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

How Old Can We Go? (Article Analysis)

the results. The author explains: " Remove those factors and researchers find that U.S. life expectancy continues to climb, but by...

Life Expectancy

beings are approaching a biological ceiling on old age. It is perhaps a myth that as time progresses, people are living longer. It...

Negative Effects of Alcohol

engage in behavior that puts them and others at risk. In addition, one can see that many binge drinkers may well be...

Ribeiro-Carvalho, et al (2011)/Article Summary

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...

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...

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...

Teen Addiction and Counseling

In eight pages adolescents addicted to alcohol and drugs are examined from a counseling perspective in which addiction is defined ...

Adolescent Children of Alcoholic Parents

In a paper consisting of ten pages the impact of parental alcohol abuse upon adolescent children's behavior and effects upon their...

Teen Alcohol Abuse Socioeconomic Policy Control and Proposition

pricing adolescents out of the alcohol market. As Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow state, the theory of supply and deman...

Expectancy Violation Theory

actor, that individuals evaluation of the behavior of the person conducting the interview are also likely to be positive according...

Risk Behaviors and Adolescents - A Talk

address the topic of how you, as adolescents, can recognize when youre being tempted to engage in risky behaviors, and decide whet...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

Annotated Bibliography on Teen Pregnancies

America (1986) CWLA Standards of Excellence for Services for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Pregnant Adolescents, and Young Pare...

Adolescent Obesity Interview and Discussion

In five pages this paper discusses the topic of adolescent obesity from an adolescent's perspective. Six sources are cited in the...

Adolescent Behavior and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

in the life of dealing with an adolescent who has ADHD, and for the adolescent to be able to deal with the disorder. Volumes of r...

A Proposed Adolescent Alcohol Use Assessment

In eight pages the environmental and genetic causes of teen alcohol usage are featured prominently in this study proposal based up...

Androgynous Female Adolescents and Self-Image

This paper addresses the issue of self-image among androgynous, female adolescents. The author contends that androgynous female a...

Connection Between Depression and Alcohol Abuse in Adolescents

depression (Jersild B10). Men, suffer from such things as well, but findings seem to suggest that women fare worse. Yet, other stu...

Adolescents and Drug Addiction

a beautiful young lady...There is no way to describe the daily misery and agony I went through while addicted to heroin" (The Agon...

Proposed Study Concerning Adolescent Drug/Alcohol Use

drugs has been determined to contribute substantially to the disease burden and mortality rate of young people between the ages of...

Rite of Passage

and, thus, in the religious duties and responsibilities of being an adult male within this community. The boy, in turn, receives a...

Jean Piagot’s Contribution to Adolescent Psychology

The time of Piaget was a time when new awareness was also coming to the specific condition of children, as they were seen as separ...

Adolescents and Major or Unipolar Depression

(Ryan, 2005). Inasmuch as there are no two identical individuals who seek out psychological counseling for depression, the ...