Essays on Alcoholism Page 7

By Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse A Book Review About the Author      The author, Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse is a well-known educator and counselor for young individuals as well as families. She is an individual putting much stress on the importance of human development within her writings. Because of this, she was able to win awards in communication and…

Notes on Smuggling moonshine during prohibition -http://www. digitalhistory. uh. edu/database/article_display. cfm? HHID=441 Enforcing the law proved almost impossible. Smuggling and bootlegging were widespread. Two New York agents, Izzie Einstein and Mo Smith, relied on disguises while staging their raids–once posing as man and wife. Their efforts were halted, however, after a raid on New York…

The Great Debate over whether marijuana should be legalized and alcohol deemed illegal has taken affect in the United States over the last century. Alcohol has been popular in America ever since its founding, and alcohol was predominately produced through moonshiners until the Whiskey Rebellion in the very early 1800s. Since then alcohol has been…

The Legal Drinking age has been set for many reasons to protect minors and other people in our current society. Many minors today see and fall to under aged drinking due to peer pressures, bad parenting, attention seeking, and many other irresponsible reasons. Growing up as a teenager your body goes through many different phases…

Alcoholism is a “primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by continuous or periodic: impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial (NCADD).” It’s…

Over the years the drinking age or the drinking laws have been questioned and changed many times. For a few years now more recently question being, should the drinking age be lowered to eighteen? Or why shouldn’t it? In the United States, binge drinking has been a big problem. It’s one of the top causes…

A typical American college students spends more on beer than they do on textbooks. Junior and senior high school students drink 35% of all wine coolers sold in the United States and 1.1 billion cans of beer each year. More than million students drink when they are alone; more than 4 million drink when they…

The fetal effects of marijuana use by pregnant Women mirror fetal alcohol syndrome ABSTRACT In many situations, people who use marijuana regularly claim that it has none of the long-term side effects of alcohol and that its short-term use creates a very different “high” than alcohol use, leaving the user more open and relaxed and…

What did you like about the meeting? The sense of belonging that was given to each member without condemnation was very inspiring to me. Members were able to share their personal alcohol issues without been ashamed or laughed at by other members. What did you dislike? It requires genuine honesty for success. For Which individuals…

What happens if a person uses a substance when they do not really need to? Why would they want to? How does peer pressure become involved with your decision to abuse substances? What would you do if you were peer pressured into taking a substance that you didn’t want to? What are the mental effects…