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Media Coverage and the Consumption of Alcohol

alcohol as a positively valued activity (Snyder, et al, 2000). In other words, drinking, as it is portrayed in ads for wine, liquo...

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...

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...

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...

Treating a Hispanic Alcohol Abuser

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

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...

Alcoholics and ADHD

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

Theoretical Orientation To Counseling Case Study

be treated at once. Depression is most often treated with a combination of psychotropic drugs and therapy but these medications c...

Massachusetts, Driving and Drinking

In six pages the Massachusetts laws regarding driving and levels of blood alcohol are discussed. Five sources are cited in the bi...

Hispanic Women from 2 Perspectives

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Hispanic women featured in Chiquita's Cocoon: The Latina Women's Guid...

Steinbeck's Novels and the Depiction of Alcoholism

A paper containing five pages analyzes how Steinbeck views alcohol and alcoholics rather ambivalently but finds a value in using t...

Alcohol Prevalence and Gender Differences

In ten pages this paper discusses the impact of gender on the prevalence of alcohol consumption and includes an examination of var...

Alcohol and Tobacco Advertising

questionable causation as increased use would not leaded to increased advertising, (or would be highly unlikely to), whereas incre...

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...

Service Industry Liability and Drunk Drivers

Would the bartender be considered liable for the deaths of those innocent people? Was it his responsibility even though the drunk...

Primary Care Screening Tool

In seven pages this paper examines an alcohol abuse screening too, the AUDIT, which consists of 10 questions and how it can be cut...

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...

Urban Youth Alcohol Use Prevention and Nurse Consultations

In five pages this paper examines the Journal of School Health article describing a research study entitled 'Brief Nursing Consult...

1990's Campus Riots and Alcohol

do so without considering the detrimental effects of such heavy consumption, rendering them volatile and defiant when authorities ...

Overview of Diabetic Ketoacidosis

In eight pages this condition that has an impact on both types of diabetes whether insulin or noninsulin dependent is discussed an...

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 Luxury Taxes

In nine pages the ineffectiveness of alcohol luxury taxes on consumption regulation is examined. Ten sources are cited in the bib...

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...

Sociological and Psychological Factors Responsible for Alcoholism in Women

In ten pages this paper examines why females turn to alcohol from psychosocial perspectives. Fourteen sources are cited in the bi...

Academic Performance and Drinking Alcohol

In this paper consisting of six pages the linkage between academic performance and alcohol consumption is reinforced by literature...

Internet Dangers and the Vulnerability of Children

In ten pages this paper examines how children using the Internet makes them vulnerable to various dangers including tobacco and al...

Alaska and the Control of Alcoholic Beverages

In ten pages an overview of Alaska laws as they pertain to the sale and possession of alcohol are discussed with a Burrow prohibit...

Alcohol on the College Campus

is apparent that raising the legal drinking age to 21 has not discouraged many young people from drinking alcohol. In a 1997 study...