Essays on Alcohol And Other

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After conducting analysis of the literature, it is possible to provide the following classification of the managerial and medical approaches towards the drug and alcohol treatment of aboriginal women: drug treatment, development of the personal skills among the target population as well as practical implementation of the therapeutic strategies, which are mainly based on the cultural and social contexts of such women. There is a considerable difference in terms of availability of such services for the Aboriginal populations and non-Aboriginal populations. For instance, those women, who are not referred as representatives of indigenous population, have an access to the ...

Australia and the USA have different health care systems whose aim is to promote good health of the citizens in the respective countries. Each of the countries has elaborate public and private health care systems managed by the governments, private health insurance companies, individuals, and other organizations. This essay aims at comparing the health care systems in the two countries with an objective to achieve an informed stance on the issue. The Australian health structure is composed of both the private and public players. The system has an explicit financing control to enhance regulation of the essential service. Further, ...

Introduction

Adolescence is a time when a person’s physical, psychological, social and cognitive growth is of great importance. During this time, the person is not a child and they are not yet an adult and some of the choices made at this time in regards to their health, lifestyle, and attitudes can be continued into adulthood. People in this stage are greatly influenced both academically and socially by social interactions. Some relationships established in academic institutions with peers and authority figures are said to be major socializing agents, especially for middle school students. Even though school is considered a ...

Anti-social personality disorder is a chronic mental condition that affects the way the patient thinks, perceive situations, and relate with other people around. People ailing from this disorder have no feelings with regards to what is considered right and wrong. They often disregard the rights, feelings, and expectations of the people they interact with. It makes the patients malicious in that they tend to treat other people harshly without caring about the outcome of such unfair treatment. They are in conflicts with others since they try to manipulate and treat people with arrogance. The current paper seeks to describe ...

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These slides attempt to estimate the extent of the problem, and point out that teenage alcohol use is probably half of what it was in 1975. It has been declining for twenty years, due in part to raising the drinking age and public education campaigns against drunk driving.

Some studies tend to overestimate this problem, which is actually a declining one.

One fairly recent estimate places the number of heavy drinkers in age 12-to-21 group at 2 million and the number of alcoholics at about 1.1 million, but these estimates vary widely by age, social class, ethnicity, location and how the questions are framed.

Almost certainly there are far more ...

Interview as a social research method

Introduction

Research plays an integral role in enhancing quality of life and transforming the society. It is defined as a scientific and systematic inquiry that is involves the use of inductive and deductive approaches to examine a social problem. Social scientists understand that research is important because it enables them to describe, predict, explain and solve social problems. As scientists, social scientists employ different research methods to conduct social research and valid their claims empirically. Although research methods differ in many aspects, they can grouped in two main dimensions namely; qualitative design and quantitative design. In quantitative design, a social scientist collects, ...

Sociological causes of drug use & abuse among college students: An Introduction

The college students, particularly those between the age-group of 18 and 24 are normally registered in colleges and universities. They are at increased risk for involving in risk drinking and other substance use than their non-college peers. These students have a tendency to involve in binge drinking and other drugs than other age-groups, whether or not they are registered in college. Normally, this predisposition arises because of: - Developmental traits of puberty and maturity, consisting of ongoing brain maturity through in the early 20s and the progress towards greater freedom and independence - Social and cultural standards of ...

1.0 CHAPTER I 1.1 Combating Criminal Narcotics Activity along the Southern Border Drug trade has been rife with violence for decades, though the level of violence we experience today are extraordinary. Without working on minimizing the severity of the problems that confront us today, it is critical to understand the background of the culture of violence and the cyclical nature of the violence epidemics. Substance abuse is one of the major problems facing nations while costing them a lot of money in health care costs, lost productivity, related crimes, and other social costs. It also contributes to high ...

Substance abuse is one of the most common problems that heavily plague societies across the globe nowadays. Among the many negative aspects of substance abuse that compromise the development of a society is the increasing prevalence of teenage involvement in it. The increasing prevalence of adolescents that get involved with drug use is one of the most alarming social problems in USA that need attention and urgent action. Analyzing the impact and predominance of drug abuse among teenagers in USA, it is important to understand what sets the problem to locate the possible interventions that will yield the best results. ...

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Parental substance abuse is ascribed to be the fundamental reason that has escalated the prevalence of child abuse and neglect. The rising trend in abuse and neglect have been made evident in both Australia and across the world, particularly from 1990 towards 2000 and beyond (Australian Institute, 2012). Data compiled and analyzed by the Institute of Child Protection studies, Australia, in 2012, provides evidence that substance abuse and addiction is the prime culprit in almost 70 to 90 percent of all the child-welfare spending (Australian Institute, 2013). Essentially, most of this funding is invested in putting up childcare ...

- Define substance abuse and how this health problem affects the community Substance abuse is the excessive use of chemical substances that increase the risk of problems and lack of the ability to control the substance. It includes the misuse of medications, alcohol and other illegal substances. Further, substance abuse has a significant impact on the individuals, families and communities. The impacts of substance abuse are cumulative and contribute to costly social, physical, mental, as well as public health problems (Abadinsky, 2008). For example, substance abuse affects a person’s physical health and social relationship. They include teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, ...

Introduction

Apart from affecting an individual’s physical, social, and mental health, the subjects of alcoholism and drugs have a weighty effect on worker’s productivity. Over the years, the issues have surfaced at the workplaces a fact that various statistics given by various scholars affirms, and without hesitation, they present serious challenges to an organization as a whole (Ghodse, 2005). The use of alcohol as well as drugs as a result of such indicators becomes an occupational safety and health disquiet in situations where their ability to exercise proper judgment, synchronization, motor control, attentiveness, and vigilance is hindered at his/her place of work. ...

Introduction

The social norms theory states that human behavior is influenced by inaccurate perceptions of the manner in which other members of social groups act and think. In recent times, prevention approaches that are based on the social norms theory have grown in popularity. Evidence now indicates that they can be very effective if implemented correctly. According to the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA, 2002), there are promising initial results obtained from programs that adopt an intensive social norms approach. According to NIAAA, there are reductions of up to 20% in the levels of high-risk drinking in a ...

The least surprising statistical data presented by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT, 1994) was the high prevalence of substance abuse or dependence issues in combination with other mental disorders. According to surveys and research papers from the 1980s and 1990s, substance abuse treatment programs reported between 50 and 75 percent co-occurring mental disorders among their clients while mental healthcare providers reported the prevalence of co-occurring substance abuse disorders among their patients between 20 and 50 percent (as cited in CSAT, 1994). The high prevalence of co-occurring disorders is not surprising because substance abuse causes several changes ...

The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between religiosity and substance abuse. Data was collected using a drug use questionnaire and a religiosity scale. It was hypothesized that individuals with high levels of religiosity would report lower levels of substance abuse compared to individuals with low levels of religiosity. A one way between subject analysis of variance was conducted and yielded .

Effects of Religiosity on Substance Abuse

The misuse of drug in the United States has exposed the population of all religions and communities to many risk factors. Some of the risk factors are very dangerous to their lives and health. One ...

Introduction

The social problem discussed in the paper is about drug and alcohol abuse in Colombia. A large population of the citizens of Colombia is under the influence of drug and alcohol abuse. The problem is common on the major towns and cities and the mostly affected population is of the young people. Drug and alcohol abuse is a social problem that has made the Colombian government to intervene and try to look for the possible solutions to the problem. The social problem has lead to both short term and immediate effects and also presents major consequences that are dangerous for ...

Curt Flood was a slave who had more personal issues than he could handle. His is a true story of the fact that money cannot necessarily guarantee you the freedom that you need. Despite his fame and the fact that he had a reasonable income, he was haunted by the fact that he was a slave and that he could not have freedom. This is mainly the issue that was even reflected to his career as a baseball player where he thought his rights were being undermined simply because he was a slave. I believe things would have been different if Flood was not a slave. ...

Alcohol and substance abuse are significant problems amongst college students worldwide. Consumption of alcohol and other addictive substances is illegal in Saudia Arabia. The law in the country is based on Islamic Sharia rules that strictly forbid the consumption of these substances (Al-Haqwi). Despite this though, there have been numerous reports of drug trafficking (“Overview of drug control in Saudia Arabia”). Findings of surveys suggest that alcohol, hashish, cannabis, heroin, amphetamines, and heroin are the most abused drugs in the country (Al-Haqwi). In this paper the scope of alcohol and substance abuse amongst college students in Saudia Arabia and ...

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Malta is situated in the central Mediterranean region and is a southern European nation in the form of three islands. Though age-standardized mortality rates are published in reports by the WHO, there seems to be a limitation of epidemiological research in the area of alcoholic liver disease in the region of Malta, which we can very well categorize as an unmet medical need. There has been a slow increase in standardized mortality rate due to cirrhosis from 1998 to 2003, but it is still low as compared to other EU nations. Besides, Malta stood at a lower rank at #51 in mortality statistics ...

1. “Removing Choice of Food Options (e.g. Healthy Eating Guidelines in School Canteens) will reduce Obesity” Obesity is one of the disorders that we can consider controversial because we can view it as an issue of medicalization or otherwise (Lecture Notes/Week 9 2012). Nevertheless, obesity is one of the most common examples of medicalised deviance. In the lectures, medicalization was defined as a process wherein non-medical problems become medical problems. Obesity is not actually considered to be harmful in the past (about 1-3 decades ago). This can be due to the fact that medical organizations during the past ...

and Alcohol Knowledge

The Effectiveness of Prevention Programs on Underage Drinking

and Alcohol Knowledge The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2007) considers underage drinking a major public health problem. In 2008, emergency rooms treated around 190,000 juveniles for injuries related to alcohol abuse (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2011). Alcohol is the most widely used drug by minors in the United States, accounting for 11% of all alcohol consumption. Binge drinking accounts for more than 90% of juvenile alcohol abuse. According to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), even though the level of alcohol use among juveniles has dropped significantly ...

Results & Discussions Lin Critique Part 3

When percentages are reported, are the underlying numbers of cases also reported? This is article focuses on the use of Forgiveness Therapy (FT) to control anger and resentment as well as depression and anxiety among alcoholic and other substance abuse patients who have been attacked by different people (Enright & Fitzgibbons, 2000). The study is carefully designed as it gives accurate percentages and figures. All the underlying number of cases are reported before giving any percentages. As a matter of fact, the percentages are derived from the reported cases. In the FT study conducted, the percentages of those who went ...

Introduction

When a child or adolescent experiences a health issue often affects all family members and the functioning of the family unit. In this paper, reference is made to a given family scenario in undertaking family assessment. The main purpose of this paper is to identify some of the actual and potential health and social problems/issues that families experience and how these problems affect the functioning of the family unit. The key points of discussion include, health and social issues/problems experienced by the family, effects of these problems to the functioning of family unit, key strength factors evidence in the given family scenario, ...

PTSD Essay Introduction

It is very normal for one to feel disconnected, sad, anxious or frightened after going through a traumatic experience. Many people find it difficult to move on with life after this experience as the painful memories of what they witnessed come back. Traumatic events such as war, natural disaster, rape, assault, sudden death of a lover, terrorist attack or even air crash can leave someone with post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) that if not well managed can have severe consequences (Murray, 1992). One group that is affected by post-traumatic stress is soldiers returning from war due to the overwhelming memories of the ...

Introduction

Marijuana refers to the common name for a crude substance that is derived from Cannabis sativa, a plant. The drug contains various psychoactive ingredients in it, with THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) being the highest in concentration (Mitch, 2005, p. 17). The debate as to whether marijuana should be legalized in the United States has been one of the most controversial issues to ever occur in the country. There are numerous reasons that would make the legalization of the drug very beneficial. Some of the reasons include; medicinal attributes of marijuana, possible tax booster, and huge cost cutting on the amounts of money invested ...

Introduction

Marijuana is a drug that is extracted from the cannabis plant. Marijuana is mainly used by individuals for the purposes of psychoactive behaviors. The genesis of the name of the drug is Spanish, from the word marihuana. According to various numerous research findings and also the United Nations report on drug use, cannabis is the most widely used drug in the world today. Marijuana can be classified as a stimulant, depressant, or hallucinogen since it exhibits the properties of other drugs classified in their respective classifications. The effects of consuming marijuana can either be classified as psychoactive or physiological. One ...