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In three pages this paper discusses how television portrays the use and abuse of illegal drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.

This research paper examines literature in order to identify the relationship between the involvement of juveniles in crime with their use of alcohol and/or drugs. The writer concludes that alcohol and drug use and the adolescents' criminal involvement are primarily symptoms of dysfunctional social factors. There is also a short abstract. Eight pages long, five sources are cited.

In five pages the aspects of alcohol and drug addiction are discussed as well as specific addictive drug properties are also described. There is no bibliography included.

The way in which using alcohol and drugs like marijuana serve as a gateway to harder drug use and abuse is the focus of this 5 page paper. 6 bibliographic sources are cited.

This 6 page paper examines alcohol toxicity, drinking at work, drug testing, health concerns and more. Alcoholism as a family disease is also discussed. This paper includes many facts about the toxic nature of alcohol and how it is related to homicide and suicide. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

The question of drugs in the workplace is the subject of this paper, which deals with City Ice and Cold Storage, which has a zero tolerance policy. It details the problems drug use causes in a professional environment and the difficulty some employees have in keeping their home habits at home. Includes the problems causd by alcohol addiction.This paper has ten pages and six sources are listed in the bibliography.

A 3 page paper discussing the link between depression and alcohol use, both as a reason that some people begin drinking and a reason that others continue. Researchers link childhood depression with early onset of alcohol use; other research examines the effects of antidepressants on alcohol use and establishes a cross-cultural link between depression and heavy alcohol use. All research is from 2006 and 2007. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

In thirteen pages this paper examines the difficulties in smoking cessation for abusers of other substances and discusses the nursing intervention method that would be most effective in this instance. Twenty two sources are listed in the bibliography.

In five pages this research paper examines addictions to drugs and alcohol among the residents of Oceanside, New York and also offers a general overview of the issue as well as New York State's preventative measures. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.

Alcohol and its history are discussed in ten pages with consumption benefits, risks, and abuse potential also included in the examination. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography.

In three pages it is argued that the funds typically used in the criminal justice system for law enforcement and imprisoning abusers of drugs and alcohol would be more effectively allocated in abuse treatment.

The utilitarian philosophy of John Stuart Mill is applied to these topics in a paper consisting of 5 pages. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.

This proposal for a research study concerns a qualitative design that would help high school students decrease their alcohol and/or drug use. Seven pages in length, five sources are cited.

9 pages in length. Being deprived of a sound education, the opportunity to earn a decent wage and living under constant socioeconomic margins provides the basis upon which certain populations have a much greater incidence of drug and alcohol abuse. Understanding the principal factors that underlie these realities is best appreciated through Marx's conflict theory, a concept that dictates one's place upon the socioeconomic latter by the political and economic structure of the specific society in which they live. Individuals mandated to outpatient treatment for drugs and alcohol feel powerless in what choices they believe they have to better their lives; as such, they become all the more vulnerable to being influenced in the wrong direction until interventionist approaches incorporate the decision-making properties of conflict theory as a practical application of empowerment. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

3 pages in length. The extent to which hydrocodone has fast become what the federal Drug Enforcement Administration considers the "most abused prescription drug in the country" (The Drug Addiction Treatment Center, 2003) is both grand and far-reaching; that such commonly abused drugs as cocaine, meth and other illicit substances serve to overshadow hydrocodone use and abuse speaks to the significant difference between illegal drug addiction and one that stems from a doctor's prescription. Bibliography lists 3 sources.