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U.S. Prohibition Movement from 1920 to 1933

per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes" (Volstead Act of 1919, 1997, p. 1). Furtherm...

Moderate Consumption of Alcohol and Media Statistics

2001, p.46). Four or five drinks within a twenty four hour period increases the short-term risk of a stroke to close to five times...

College Campuses and Alcohol

on their campuses. "Widely used despite its illegality for most undergraduates, alcohol contributes to almost half of all motor ve...

Abilities of New Young Drivers

over-represented in alcohol related driving accidents. Although drinking, binge drinking, and alcohol related crashes are droppin...

US and New Zealand Uses of Alcohol and Tobacco

smoking everyday and a further 6% smoking occasionally, 28% were ex smokers (ASH, 1999). The patterns here are clear, young female...

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...

Comparing Alcohol Abuse in Heterosexuals and Lesbians

alcohol and drugs (McDaniel, 2001, 86). Abuse is a part of the lesbian experience as it is for all areas of society, but...

Treating a Hispanic Alcohol Abuser

are distinctive patterns of drug and alcohol abuse within the Hispanic population. Overall, Hispanics use alcohol at rates simila...

Substance Abuse and Burlington Northern Railroad

because programs at companies that combine substance abuse education and support, along with testing, tend to have far better resu...

Attitudes of Social Workers and Nurses About Working with Alcoholic Clients

criminal and social repercussions, creating a punitive response to alcoholism that can impact the views of service providers. Cha...

Client Therapy and Alcohol Abuse of 3 Generations

may be already susceptible to the disease and to other types of substance abuse as seen with her marijuana use. Her religious cult...

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...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Food and Drink

psyche which he has not yet lost. The book did not reach as high a level of commercial success as further books such as Farewell t...

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...

Young People and the Impact of Substance Abuse

had fewer suicidal thoughts than those who used drugs and engaged in sex (2004). Those who used marijuana, and perhaps other illeg...

Comparing the Use of Alcohol and Tobacco in the U.S. and New Zealand

those who smoke at this early age are also products of the society around themselves. If this is true we would also expect to find...

Alcohol According to Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was...

IV Preparation, Alcohol, and Betadine

is marketed under the name of Betadine. For many years, either or both of these solutions have been used as a topical preparation...

Treatment Plan for an African American Woman Suffering from Alcoholism and PTSD

1. The instillation of coping skills for the PTSD which will allow the client to pursue a productive life....

Comparative Analysis of 2 Government Agency Websites

provide very recent information and its latest press release is dated December 19, 2001. The press release involves a campaign des...

Alcohol Use and its Negative Impact

1992)" (Dufour, 1996; p. 145). In addition, as Dufour (1996) notes, the consumption of alcohol is a very powerful and integral par...

A New University Policy to Ban Campus Alcohol Consumption

during a drinking binge while 21% reported having unplanned sex and 12% reported having been injured because of alcohol consumptio...

Impulse Response, Cognitive Performance, and the Influence of Personality and Alcohol

as how cognition is affected in respect to personality. Embretson & Prenovost (2000) provides a study which examines the structu...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

Alcoholics and ADHD

Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...

Overview of Short Term Memory Loss Research

appropriate, but notes that there are no pharmaceutical treatments available specifically for short term memory loss. The c...

Youth Alcohol and Tobacco Use and Advertising

Advertising conditions the audience into believing that they cannot do without the product, regardless of whether the product is g...

Media Coverage and the Consumption of Alcohol

alcohol as a positively valued activity (Snyder, et al, 2000). In other words, drinking, as it is portrayed in ads for wine, liquo...

Alcohol Advertisements and College Student Binge Drinking

missing classes, falling behind and ultimately losing whatever funding may have accompanied ones higher education is but one repre...