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Treating a Hispanic Alcohol Abuser

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

Alcoholism and Genetics

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

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...

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...

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...

Effects of Music and Alcohol on Female Behavior in Nightclubs

is to observe the evolution of the night, to record the "behavior" of several women visitors to the night club scene, and to quest...

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...

Crime, Drug Use, and Their Contextual Relationships

defend" (Anonymous, 1998, p. 26A) brings to light yet another detrimental impact of teenage drug use. The 1990s heralded in...

US Cities Prohibition of Alcohol Sales as 'Unconstitutional'

Increasingly, cities within otherwise "wet" areas seek to prohibit the sale and use of alcohol within specific areas of these citi...

Intoxicants and Islam

This direction is sometimes general in nature yet it can be applied to specific components of our world. Other times this directi...

Overview of a Minor in Possession of Alcohol

Texas, which, according to Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, Sec. 106.05, allows him the freedom to possess - and even drink - alcoho...

TV and Substance Abuse

long ago Dr. Phil railed against a teenager for smoking pot every day. There are mixed messages on television about drugs. While t...

The Ethics of Coerced Treatment for Addiction

crime to pay for their habits, they fail academically, and they fail in society as a whole. Drug abusers can become violent or en...

Procedure and Criminal Law III

discovery of marijuana inside it was made under false assumptions and a search that should not have occurred without Jerrys explic...

Fear of Hand Sanitizer, a Statistical Sampling

time; there is now a class of staphylococcus bacteria that is resistant to all known antibiotics and has been blamed for the death...

Australian Society and Drugs' Legal Status

legal status have no supportive precedents to cite (Moffitt et al, 1998). In the United States, Alaska briefly legalized the use ...

Recreational Drugs and Their Negative Impact

Wilson, 2003). Short term effects are memory lapses, impairment of coordination and speech and the commonly associated drunken beh...

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...

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...

Alcohol Types

lives because they are used in so many products. There is alcohol in gasoline, paint, "food additives, thickeners ... antifreeze ....

Choices and Consequences by Schaefer

notes that too many people feel they are responsible for a youths behavior but they are not and in being responsible "to" them the...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

Opposition To Drunk Driving

or being victim to - an automobile accident, particularly when such a catastrophe is caused by a drunk driver. Not only does it i...

Regression Analysis

assess the number of fatalities that may be seen. Using this we see the flowing in terms of the national fatalities rates for the ...

Social Considerations for the Alcohol Industry in Poland

significant reduction in mean alcohol consumption among the major targets of its Strategy Health for All in 2000" (Moskalewiczi, 2...

Zip Code 11572 and Abuse of Alcohol and Drugs

alcohol prior to being 20 years of age and most of these individuals state (47 percent) state that they began substance abuse with...

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...

The Consequences of Alcoholism

that drink. The fact that alcoholism is an illness like cancer of diabetes should serve as a warning that something ought to be d...