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have different physiological responses to alcohol (Blume, 1990). Some important issues for women are that alcohol dependency can ...

playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was...

B. Abuse of illicit drugs increasing among seniors. C. Prescription drugs. 1. Seniors take many more drugs than younger adults. 2....

is the risk that certain transaction types or an account balance may be misstated, either due to individual transactions or as the...

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...

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

customer service. The organization has the choice of building a daycare center on premises or implementing on-site medical care. T...

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

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

when he cannot feel a pulse. A new nurse, a first year graduate, Sally enters the room, sees Long and runs out. She encounters Nur...

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

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

to hurt a friend, and decided in favor of lying. Our desire to avoid hurting our friend leads us to subordinate our desire to be ...

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

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

As a teacher, I believe both models are important and to use one exclusively is a disservice to students. It sounds good to say "s...

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

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

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

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

place one squarely in the middle of the single parents role. For some this role, however, is a desired one and not a burden. For...

option. That option, however, is replete with many ethical considerations. As we shall see, those ethical considerations become ...

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

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, ...

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

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

bloomer from a child with expressive language disorder at an early age. There are, however, many speech pathology assessment ins...

enjoy. Caregivers might also use childrens books written about hygiene as teaching tools; there are many books devoted to the sub...