Essays 31 - 60
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
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...
In a paper consisting of ten pages the impact of parental alcohol abuse upon adolescent children's behavior and effects upon their...
entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...
"total years of life lost to disability (YLD), with depression accounting for 8% of the total YLD" (Mathers, et al., 2001; p. 1076...
(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...
In seven pages this paper examines an alcohol abuse screening too, the AUDIT, which consists of 10 questions and how it can be cut...
drinkers life (work, marriage, finances) is not too great, it generally can be reversed or at least prevented from progressing aft...
The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...
research shows that the majority of women, and also a percentage of men, who seek treatment for substance abuse disorders indicate...
engage in behavior that puts them and others at risk. In addition, one can see that many binge drinkers may well be...
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...
In eight pages adolescents addicted to alcohol and drugs are examined from a counseling perspective in which addiction is defined ...
In five pages this research paper discusses the correlation between sex and using alcohol as it pertains to adolescents and teens....
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...
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...
"Why is it," Aristotle asked in the fourth century B.C., "that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are...
attacks, visual hallucinations, and paranoid delusions" are withdrawal symptoms of heavy drinking (Anonymous, 1999, PG). In the m...
In this paper consisting of six pages the DSM IV's role in both diagnosing and treating alcohol abuse in terms of the alcoholics a...
types of communication regardless of the formal or informal status. For example when we have a conversation the way a person stand...
important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...
and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...
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...
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, ...
results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...
in certain populations. A study conducted by Dawson and Grant (1998) concluded that alcohol dependence has a distinct correlate t...
within the scope of this relationship commonly provided substantive information about the emotional status of the individual. ...
appropriate, but notes that there are no pharmaceutical treatments available specifically for short term memory loss. The c...
Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...
more common than single-gene disorders, tend to involve multiple genes, also include significant environmental factors, and are as...