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Papers On Drugs & Alcohol
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Choices and Consequences by Schaefer
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A 4 page report on Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs by Dick Schaefer. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAchocot.rtf
Cigarette Smoking in Adolescence (Article Review)
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This 3 page paper examines an article by Larson, Story, Perry, Neumark-Strainer & Hannan (2007) that takes a look at adolescent lifestyle factors and behavior. The focus is on cigarette smoking and other health related behaviors. No additional sources cited.
Filename: SA738art.rtf
Claim Of Policy Essay: Drunk Driving
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8 pages in length. There is, perhaps, nothing more eye opening to the brevity of life than witnessing or being victim to - an automobile accident, particularly when such a catastrophe is caused by a drunk driver. Not only does it immediately wrench one from the idle comfort that inconspicuously shields people from such harsh reality but if that accident proves fatal to the vehicles driver or passengers, it also makes one realize that the fight against allowing drunk drivers on the road is still a losing battle. While laws exist to severely punish drivers who are driving under the influence of alcohol, they are not strong enough to prevent first-time offenders from getting behind the wheel in the first place, a reality particularly pertinent to adolescent drivers. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: TLCDrunkDr.rtf
Clark's Deliver Us From Evil
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This 5 page paper looks at Norman Clark's powerful book about the prohibition era in America. The paper places a focus on the author's contribution and inclusion of his personal position. No additional sources cited.
Filename: SA013clk.rtf
Client Diagnosis and Treatment: A Case Study
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This 7 page paper provides an overview of a client case study for an individual suffering from alcholism. This paper shows the client diagnostic process and the treatment protocols. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: MHAlCaS3.rtf
Clinical Supervision Of Substance Abuse Counselors
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This 9 page paper discusses the challenges of supervising substance abuse counselors. There is very little literature that addresses this type of supervision but it is known that there are at least three supervision issues in substance abuse counseling that are idiosyncratic to this particular type of counseling. These are identified and discussed. The roles of the supervisor are also identified. The writer then presents a scenario wherein a counselor comes to the supervisor with a problem. The writer then discusses the steps the supervisor will take in this scenario. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PGclsp.rtf
Coca, Erythroxylum coca, The Start of Cocaine
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This 7 page
report discusses cocaine and the coca plant, Erythroxylum coca.
The plant itself is native to South America where it has been
cultivated since the time of the Incas. Most of the world's coca
grows in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. Although the illegal cocaine
market has changed coca production in a fundamental way,
traditional legal uses of the plant for chewing and herb tea,
with their export markets, remain. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: BWccaine.wps
Cocaine
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The physical, psychological and social effects of cocaine are examined in this 5 page overview. Specific effects of the drug are discussed as well as treatment alternatives for addiction to this substance. Current research is noted where applicable. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Cocaine.wps
Cocaine
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This 5 page report discusses cocaine and the effects it has had on modern society as well as on individuals. One has to wonder how such a dangerous and
reprehensible substance became so popular. There is apparently only one answer -- it physically delights the
human being. Unfortunately, aside from the price it exacts from people in the havoc it wreaks, it also creates an
out-of-control craving, a mindless compulsion, an irrepressible urge. There are an estimated 4 million chronic
drug users in America and 3.6 million are chronic cocaine users (primarily crack cocaine). Bibliography lists 7
sources.
Filename: BWcocain.wps
Codeine
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A 4 page comprehensive overview of the drug Codeine- its chemical properties, uses, and addictive qualities. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Codeine.wps
Cognac
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This 5 page paper looks at the history and development of cognac, what it is, where it comes from, how it is made, and how it is used. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
Filename: TEcognac.rtf
Cognitive Effects of Marijuana
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This 8 page paper provides an overview of the cognitive effects of marijuana. Several studies are cited. Marijuana is discussed in depth and examples are included. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA121pot.doc
College Drinking vs. Academic Performance
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This 7 page essay examines the cause and effect of drinking in college and the resulting poor academic performance. Bibliography lists nine sources, all sources have been published since 1992. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: Drinks.wps
College Drinking: Sociological Point Of View
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6 pages in length. The marriage between alcohol consumption and college life have long been accepted as the norm within the confines of campus existence; however, it is the manner by which students ultimately manifest the desire to engage in college drinking that causes one to consider myriad aspects in their respective lives other than the freedom of being away from home. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: TLCColDrnk.rtf
College Students and Alcohol Abuse
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A 10 page paper discussing the psychology, motivation, and results of alcohol abuse in college students. Reasons such as anxiety, peer pressure, and family history of alcohol abuse figure most prominently in the factors motivating college-age drinking. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: Drunks.doc
Collegiate Drinking
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This 3 page paper uses three articles to formulate a solution to the problem of excessive drinking on campus. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: HVColDrk.rtf
Combating Drug And Alcohol Abuse At City Ice And Cold Storage
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10 pages in length. There exists little tolerance for drug use and abuse at City Ice and Cold Storage. Not only does substance abuse disrupt the flow of day-to-day production because of excessive absenteeism, incessant tardiness and poor job performance, but it also costs the company untold numbers of dollars each year in lost revenue. The writer discusses how drugs including alcohol have no place in the work environment, yet there is a significant percentage of workers here at City Ice and Cold Storage who cannot separate their personal lives from their professional lives, creating a potentially volatile situation by haphazardly combining the two. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TLCdrgwk.wps
Combating Drugs Within The Work Environment
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14 pages in length. The workplace is a source of considerable stress. In order to cope with the pressures often associated with one's job, a person sometimes turns to drugs as a way out. At first, substance use may appear to be an easy thing to keep in control, but if office stress continues at the same or even elevated pace, casual drug use soon turns to abuse. Sick days come to frequently, lateness becomes a regular occurrence and job performance begins to suffer. Studies into the reasons why drug abuse is an issue in the workplace have presented wide and varied findings. Significant to the job market is the fact that men have consistently ranked higher than women with regard to overall drug use. Being that men staff the American workforce to a large extent, these findings indicate that the workplace drug problem is even more of a concern with companies that utilize primarily male employees. The writer discusses the social impact of on-the-job drug abuse, as well as discusses preventive measures. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: TLCdrgso.rtf
Commentary On The 1920s: Prohibition
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4 pages in length. Prohibition of the 1920s openly implied numerous messages by suggesting quite vigorously that people were not adequately able to keep their private consumption in check, thus requiring the parental control of government
infiltration. The writer offers commentary on Prohibition's social impact. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: TLCpro20.wps
Comparisons and Issues of Steroid and Supplement Use
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This is a 5 page paper discussing the issues involved with the use of steroids and supplements today. While steroids remain mostly illegal, except in medical treatments, usage remains fairly easy to spot. Supplement use, on the other hand, is on the rise in adolescents today and can be seen as far more dangerous because of its accessibility and the many unknown elements used in todays supplements.
Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TJstero1.rtf
Contemplation Of Legal Action For Fetal Exposure To Cocaine
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presents a comparison study that found the African American mother of
low socio-economic status o be the most likely candidate for using
cocaine during pregnancy. Knowing this, programs and strategies may be
implemented targeting that specific population for assistance with
pre-natal care and drug dependency treatment as an alternative to
prosecution and incarceration. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
Filename: KTbabexp.wps
Contextual Relationships Between Drug Use And Crime
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4 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses alcohol, college and poverty as they relate to contextual relationships between drug use and crime. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: TLCDrugCrm.rtf
Corrections Facilities and Programs for Juvenile Drug Abusers in Cedar City, Utah
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This 4 page paper describes some of the programs and facilities in place for juvenile drug abusers in Cedar City, Utah. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: HVUTDrug.rtf
Counseling the Addicted Teen
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8 pages in length. Discusses addiction, counseling, treatment, and various pertinent programs available to assist adolescents involved with the use of drugs & alcohol. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Drugteen.wps
Crack Babies
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the problem of crack babies and pays attention to costs and health problems that these children have. Detailed information is provided on just what cocaine or crack does to a woman's body and to the fetus. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA232crk.rtf
Crack Cocaine: Infiltration Into Our Schools
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A 5 page discussion of the increasing use of crack cocaine among our nation's youth. Notes that even schools are not immune to this use. Suggest that the failure of our programs to dissuade drug use rests in the popular perception that drugs are "cool". Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPdrugSc.wps
Crack Cocaine: Fetal And Child Impact
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6 pages in length. Pregnancy is a time for the mother's purification so her body can produce as healthy a baby as possible. Women who use crack cocaine when with child not only set the stage for having a mentally and/or physically deformed baby, but they also stand the very real chance of losing the fetus altogether. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: TLCCrackFetal.rtf
Crime and Drugs; A Research Proposal to Gain More Support for Recovery Programs
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This 21 page paper examines the relationship between drugs and crime. The paper stars by looking at the background to the research conducts an in-depth literature review and defines a methodology that can be used with or without primary research taking place and suggests how primary reseach may be conducted. The bibliography cites 13 sources.
Filename: TErecdrug.rtf
Criminal Justice 6
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A 9 page paper in two parts. The first part, 3 pages, discusses the differences between juvenile and adult courts, and reviews some of the more effective means of waging the war on drugs. The second part of the paper is a brief presenting arguments both for and against legalization or decriminalization of marijuana. Part 2 makes no conclusion, but rather presents arguments used by those on both sides of the issue. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: KScrimJust6.rtf
Criminal Justice Planning : Drug Offenders
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This 7 page paper is a continuation of PGcrmjs.rtf about the city of Shelby. This paper outlines some of the essential principles upon which a coordinated drug prevention program must be based. A strategic plan is then presented that includes the purpose of the program, target populations, cooperating agencies, measurable objectives, programs already shown to be effective that can be implemented by the different agencies and a budget for the program. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PGcrmjs2.rtf
Criteria for Employee Drug Testing
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A 2.5 page paper which examines two specific conditions in which a company should be allowed to test its employees for drugs. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TGdrugtest.rtf
Critique of Client Presented with Multiple Substance Abuse, Physical and Mental Health Problems
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This is a 5 page paper giving a critique of a client who was assessed with multiple substance abuse, physical and mental health problems. A client was presented to the counseling team who was assessed to have multiple substance abuse, physical and mental health problems. The female client is 25 years of age, of Hispanic origin, homeless and currently unemployed. Assessment of the client found that she is HIV positive, bipolar, has a sexual addiction and also abuses cocaine and alcohol. The client was uncooperative during initial assessment with the counselor. In a critique of the client, it must be determined the possible causes of her afflictions and to what end the counseling team can offer assistance through an education of her symptoms.
Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TJclienC1.rtf
Crystal Meth: Effects On Teens And Adults
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6 pages in length. Crystal methamphetamine has had a long and illustrious presence throughout the last half of the twentieth century; for a drug typically prescribed for addressing attention deficit disorders and obesity, crystal meth has been used illegally on the streets to a much greater degree for the artificial high it provides. Known under an abundance of slang terms - not the least of which includes speed, meth, ice, crystal, chalk, crank, tweak, uppers, black beauties, glass, bikers coffee, methlies quick, poor man's cocaine, chicken feed, shabu, stove top, trash, go-fast, yaba, and yellow bam - crystal meth has served to perpetuate the nation's addiction problem along with cocaine and according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is ranked the second most commonly used drug behind alcohol and marijuana. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: TLCMethEffct.rtf
Current Drug Trends in America - 1980 to the Present
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This 10 page report discusses the illegal drug trends that have taken place in the United States over the past two decades. Drugs have made a tremendous impact on American society over the past thirty to forty years, yet many Americans are often ambivalent regarding their opinions relating to drugs in terms of decriminalization, availability, impact on society, and mental and physical health impacts. In 1979, some 25 million Americans had tried drugs sometime in the preceding month. Today that figure is 11 million. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: BWdrgUS.wps
D.A.R.E.: An Overview
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A 14 page paper which provides a general overview of the
D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: RAdare.rtf
David Simon and Edward Burns The Corner Implications to Social Work and Policy
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A 5 page review of this inside look at the desperation of the inner city drug culture of West Baltimore. The author of this paper contends that this book is much more than an expose on sex, drugs and rock and roll. It is a window into a community in need, a community in which the drug culture of the inner city infiltrates other aspects of the city such as unemployment, housing and health care issues. It is, in fact, a testament to the desperation facing many urban neighborhoods throughout the United States. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPcorner.rtf
Decriminalization of Drugs
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A 6 page paper which examines how America seems to be losing its war on drugs, as prisons have become overpopulated with drug users instead of drug lords, while families and innocent victims are often caught in the crossfire. Specifically considered is how rehabilitative treatment, rather than imprisonment for the drug user, might be a more successful way of fighting the war on drugs. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: TGdrgwar.rtf
Depression: Behavioral Manifestations and Causes Among Teenagers
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A 6 page discussion of the causes and impacts of depression among teenagers. The author of this paper discusses both the environmental and biological causes of depression, noting that each cause can manifest itself differently according to the individual and the circumstances. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPadDepr.rtf
Designer Drugs
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A 20 page paper. This is a comprehensive look at specific drugs, some are the standbys like cocaine and marijuana, others are the more recent designer drugs, like Ecstasy and roofies. Each of the drugs included in this paper is fully described: content, origin, how taken, effect of short-term and chronic use. The incidence of use of each is then discussed, with data as recent as 1999. The writer also reports on the typical user for each drug. Some statistics regarding emergency room visits as a result of some of the drugs are also included. A brief discussion of clandestine labs is provided. Finally, the writer concludes with some strong statements about decreasing the rate of abuse. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: PGdesdrg.wps
Detection of Date Rape Drugs
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A 7 page paper which examines the toxicology and forensic detection of date rape drugs. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAdrd.rtf
Deviant Behavior: Drug Use
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A 4 page paper which examines various issues regarding drug use in our society. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAdguse.rtf
Diethyl Ether
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This 5 page paper considers this drug as a member of the oxygen-containing functional groups. The writer places this drug in to context of its functional group, then considers how it has been used as an anaesthetic and the drugs' historical development. After this the writer looks at its' chemical formula and give a comprehensive outline of its' physical properties. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
Filename: TEether1.rtf
Differences Between Crack and Cocaine Use and Sentencing Guidelines
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This 4 page paper examines crack and cocaine and looks at the differences. Are sentencing guidelines fair? The issue is addressed as well the disparity between rich and poor in America. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA708cok.rtf
Discussion of Alcohol as a Drug
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This is a 10 pape paper which discussed the history of alcohol, it potential for abuse and the risks and benefits of alcohol consumption.
The bibliography has 9 sources.
Filename: JHAlco.rtf
Do the Crime -- Pay the Time: An Argument Against the
Legalization of Drugs
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This 5 page report supports the
criminalization of illegal drugs usage by showing creative
programs that do work across the United States, rather than
re-structuring the laws that govern the use of illegal
substances. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWcrimdg.wps