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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...

Article Review on Teen Alcohol and Drug Abuse

In five pages a journal article by Clark and Bukstein is reviewed regarding teens, substance abuse, comorbidity, as well as negati...

Teen Alcohol and Drug Abuse

In seventeen pages this paper discusses substance abuse in teens with the emphasis upon Alaska and what changes can be enacted by ...

Alcoholism's Social and Psychological Effects

In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

Hydrocodone Abuse

of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...

Substance Use and Abuse

The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

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...

Substance use in the Boroughs

Drug abuse, regardless of the type of drug, has a very negative effect on the body and brain of the user and abuser. Chemicals fro...

Prevention And Treatment Programs For Alcohol Abuse

prevention of alcohol abuse from a community perspective has made Sacramento, California a precedent setting city whereby extended...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Alcohol and Teens

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

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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" (...

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...

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...

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...

Juveniles and Drug Abuse

similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...

Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Corporate Management

In eight pages a variety of methods regarding substance abuse in the workplace are discussed and include detection and eradication...

John Stuart Mill, Legal Age Limit for Alcohol Drinking, Drug Abuse, and Pornography

The utilitarian philosophy of John Stuart Mill is applied to these topics in a paper consisting of 5 pages. Three sources are cit...

Women and Impact of Abusing Alcohol and Drugs

Gastric metabolism is almost nonexistent for alcoholic women (Kilbourne, 1992; p. 4). Thus far, most research on alcoholism has ...

Impacts of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

In ten pages the writer probes the impacts of substance abuse on the abuser and others through a research study that includes a hy...

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...