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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 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...

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...

Sexual Abuse as a Cause of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

was missing during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix time and time again due to the individua...

Health and Alcohol as Perceived by a GP Nurse

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

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...

Parent Alcohol Abuse and Effects on Children

question whether that is the case or not, because that will be all he has ever been exposed to. As he grows to realize it is his ...

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...

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 and Teens

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

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...

Abstinence is Less Important Than Alcohol Education

In five pages it is argued that educating individuals of the effects of alcohol has a greater impact than abstinence as far as abu...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Harmful Physical Effects of Sustance Abuse and Alcohol

It is approximately 6 to 13 percent now (PG). Some samples that have been seized are even higher. It takes less of the more pote...

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 ...

DSM IV, Alcohol Abuse, and Family Effects of Diagnosis

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...

Quantifying Alcohol and Domestic Abuse Relationships Through an Email Study Based Proposal

The excessive use of alcohol by the male member of domestic couples could be expected to place a couple at greater risk for experi...

Russian Immigrant Outpatient Treatment for Alcoholism

in certain populations. A study conducted by Dawson and Grant (1998) concluded that alcohol dependence has a distinct correlate t...

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...

Alcoholics and ADHD

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

Alcoholism and Genetics

more common than single-gene disorders, tend to involve multiple genes, also include significant environmental factors, and are as...

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...