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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

3 pages in length. Begley et al (1999) point out that while some people may be more biologically predisposed to violence, this tendency can be either lessened or amplified by the way in which the child is raised. The presence of such elements as abuse, guns, drugs/alcohol or inadequate parenting - according to the authors - is enough to tip some biologically inclined youth over the edge toward murderous behavior. With chemical imbalance and frontal lobe lesions two of the most applicable aspects of biological predisposition toward excessive violence, the authors point out how these already unstable individuals do not need much in the way of motivation to carry out what other people would never have the wherewithal to do. The inherent lack of emotional sensitivity is the key indicator of mental imbalance, whereby children and/or youth are devoid of the otherwise normal understanding that what they have done - or will do - is wrong. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 3 page paper which examines the negative effects of alcohol. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 4 page paper considers the issue of new drugs and whether or not they should be labelled as an issue of public safety. The FDA focuses on drug approval, leaving a gap when it comes to assessing drugs that have already been approved. There ahs been a call for all new drugs to be marked as new. The paper assesses this from the perspective of the drug companies, the health policy makers and the patients. The bibliography cites 2 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.

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.

In four pages the substance abuse program at Burlington Northern Railroad is discussed in terms of supervisory training, testing, and peer involvement in its efforts to keep the workpalce free of alcohol and drugs. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.

This 8 page paper discusses the negative impact drug and alcohol abuse can have on adolescents. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 3 page paper proposing that a hospital stations at least one uniformed security officer in the Emergency Department. A 2005 study found that 45 percent of violent acts against ED physicians involved drugs or alcohol. Medical personnel's expertise generally does not extend to personal self-defense; neither should they be expected to require such skills to effectively perform their duties. Bibliography lists 3 sources.