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1. The instillation of coping skills for the PTSD which will allow the client to pursue a productive life....
playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was...
The excessive use of alcohol by the male member of domestic couples could be expected to place a couple at greater risk for experi...
missing classes, falling behind and ultimately losing whatever funding may have accompanied ones higher education is but one repre...
have different physiological responses to alcohol (Blume, 1990). Some important issues for women are that alcohol dependency can ...
interviewed more than 40 recovered and active alcoholic women across the United States: young, old; black, white; sisters, mothers...
and Dougherty (2001) address is that to which individuals refer when labeling someone as a "mean drunk," however. Moeller and Dou...
on their campuses. "Widely used despite its illegality for most undergraduates, alcohol contributes to almost half of all motor ve...
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...
provide very recent information and its latest press release is dated December 19, 2001. The press release involves a campaign des...
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...
unborn child. The National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) defines fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) as "a lifel...
fraternity or sorority is already biologically or psychosocially geared toward alcohol abuse, then this simply strikes a match to ...
during a drinking binge while 21% reported having unplanned sex and 12% reported having been injured because of alcohol consumptio...
driver said the incident happened because the sun was glaring in his eyes (MADD, 1999). Millie and Roy Webb were traveling with ...
over-represented in alcohol related driving accidents. Although drinking, binge drinking, and alcohol related crashes are droppin...
smoking everyday and a further 6% smoking occasionally, 28% were ex smokers (ASH, 1999). The patterns here are clear, young female...
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 ...
may be already susceptible to the disease and to other types of substance abuse as seen with her marijuana use. Her religious cult...
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...
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...
alcohol as a positively valued activity (Snyder, et al, 2000). In other words, drinking, as it is portrayed in ads for wine, liquo...
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...
Advertising conditions the audience into believing that they cannot do without the product, regardless of whether the product is g...
alcohol and drugs (McDaniel, 2001, 86). Abuse is a part of the lesbian experience as it is for all areas of society, but...
are distinctive patterns of drug and alcohol abuse within the Hispanic population. Overall, Hispanics use alcohol at rates simila...
criminal and social repercussions, creating a punitive response to alcoholism that can impact the views of service providers. Cha...