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    1301-16 12 November 2009 Alcohol and College Students: What are the Effects? College is a time in one’s life to start over, to start off on a clean slate. It is also time for a person to prepare for their future. Most importantly, college is time for people to achieve an education, while furthermore working on who they are and who they want to be. However, when people hear about college experiences, they are mostly focused around wild parties, drugs, and alcohol: the makings of a “good time”

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    The misuse of alcohol by the female population This assignment will discuss and evaluate the prevalence of the abuse of alcohol among the female population. It will show the reasons for this behaviour and assess the effects of the misuse on this group of people. Prevention and harm reduction will be evaluated and the philosophy and theory which forms the basis of treatments will also be analysed. Previously, it was the case that men were much more likely to abuse alcohol, as they were much higher

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    Alcohol abuse is the most common addictive behavior that is brewing amongst teens and adults. It is widely concerning and threatening to one’s family and social life. Many have tried to guest and speculate that alcohol abuse is due to many factors that include genetics, social, mental and emotional, and even how people around you raised you. Many also have speculated that people that we associates with that are alcoholics can be a factor also. It can be family and friends, schoolmates, and colleagues

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    Review of Literature The study conducted by Changalwa, C, Ndurumo, M, Barasa, P, & Poipoi, 4 (2012) is on the relationship between parenting styles and alcohol abuse among college Students in Kenya. The purpose of this study was to see the relationship between alcohol abuse and parenting style. The study was based on Erik Erikson psychosocial theory (1950). The sample consisted of 32 respondents out of 1000 students who were sampled using purposive sampling was used a form of ramdom sampling. The

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    morbidity and lower quality of life compared to the general population (p. 250). Moreover, I will elaborate my own one-year therapy plan that will be focused on tackling the main issues that contribute to the comorbidity of self-harm: depression and alcohol abuse. Lastly, I will look at another possible treatment involving community reinforcement. To start, Sinclair et al. conducted a study that followed an original cohort composed of a “representative sample of [150] self-harm patients presenting to one

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    physical or mental desire to consume alcohol beyond his or her capacity to control it (O’Connor, 2011). As an alcoholic drinks more, his or her tolerance increases. This means he or she will need more alcohol in order to feel drunk. He or she may also experience a physical dependence; if they do not consume alcohol they will begin to experience withdrawal symptoms. The other type of drinking problem that someone may have to deal with is alcohol abuse. Alcohol abuse is when an individual’s drinking leads

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    ever die because they couldn’t control their alcohol abuse or they were scared to ask for help ?Alcohol abuse is an important topic because many people die from it everyday. Alcohol abuse plays a major role in high school students because of the things they see their parents do and their peers do Alcohol abuse plays a major role on teens in high school because of things that their parents do in front of them and they catch on and want to be like them. Alcohol plays a major role on teens in high school

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    Alcohol Use Disorder, most commonly known as Alcohol Abuse or Alcohol Dependence, is widely known as problem that occurs with individuals who consumes an enormous amount of alcohol on a regular basis often in a single use. The individual is consumed with the thought of drinking most of the time and often feel as though they need it to continue with living their daily lives, even though, they are not really living at all because the enormous amount of alcohol causes a dysfunction for their daily

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    population, one is Alcohol related. Additionally, the prevalence of Alcohol consumption among the Native American population relates to

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    Alcohol use is a common use during adolescence and elderly in the United States. Some individuals may starts alcohol consumption earlier in childhood. It is known that most college-aged students drink more heavily because they want to do what they friend do. More adolescents drink alcohol and used drugs when social events, peer pressure and want to impress a popular group. Later there had been a lot of alcohol, binge drinking in this society. The dangers of drink among elderly and adolescence is

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