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This research paper offers an overview of alcoholism as it describes the causes, damage to the body and the treatment of this dise...
In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...
and forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a varie...
panic attacks, low self esteem, and substance abuse are other manifestations of adults survivors of abuse(Boulware, 2002). Most of...
For the purposes of this paper the term "alcohol" will be used as it pertains to any sort of distilled or fermented liquid that...
lifetime, 27% of the population will suffer from a substance abuse disorder....Ninety five percent of alcoholics die of their dise...
indicates that, "Genetics and family history are increasingly thought to play a significant role in whether a person develops alco...
that drink. The fact that alcoholism is an illness like cancer of diabetes should serve as a warning that something ought to be d...
In a paper consisting of eight pages alcoholism's causative factors are discussed in terms of the correlation between genes and en...
In fifteen pages alcoholism is examined in terms of its effect on children with a current literature review featured in this resea...
I. Preliminary plan overview A. Alcoholism is an absence of self-discipline. B. Alcoholism can be viewed as...
past decade. Richard is 47 years old and was initially referred to counseling by his primary care physician, who argued that his ...
C, and HIV (Health Effects 2). It can also cause nutritional issues, lead to alcohol poisoning, cause psychological problems, and...
course, is one of the more prominent of the substances being abused (Plouffe, 2001). This results in estimated losses of $9.2 bil...
love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...
(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...
2007). In first examining this condition, from a broad perspective, it is helpful to note some of the facts concerning families/ch...
as a healthcare problem (Gorski, 1996). If it is a physiological condition that is highly likely that this will be classified as a...
notably denial" ("Definition of Alcoholism, 1990). This definition is similar to the one provided by the DSM IV regarding substanc...
A research study that evaluated the factors that contribute to success using an AA 12-step approach to recovery found that the pre...
and leave the rest is our motto," she said. "Everyone has their own path when it comes to dealing with addictions. Were just here ...
a consensus among various research studies that a patients voluntary attendance and participation in an Alcoholics Anonymous or si...
those that imbibed but also those that did not. This means, of course, that those who imbibed consumed much more than 7.1 gallons...
abuse despite interpersonal problems or social caused brought about by drinking (Dawson, 2000). Repeated drinking of alcohol on da...
often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...
to certain diseases (Wastyn and Wastyn, 1997). According to a study performed by Kenneth Blum and his colleagues at the Universit...
parents are much more likely to become alcoholics themselves than do those who grow up in nonalcoholic households (Powell and Garc...
and effectively determine the true scope of the impact upon adult children of alcoholic parents, one must recognize that such data...
Wing (1996) notes that research findings have indicated the fact that within the Native American culture, the reality of alcoholis...
fact that two collective bodies of research could provide such a mixed response, suggests that there is indeed reason to disbeliev...