Academic papers on Drugs & Alcohol

Home Beer Brewing -- Survivalism at its Best
This 5 page report discusses the processes and advantages of home beer brewing. The popularity of people learning to brew their own beer, including a desire to get back to a sense of self-sufficiency, the popularity of micro-brews, as well as...
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Marijuana: Overview Of Issues
5 pages in length. The issues surrounding marijuana are both varied and complex. Depending upon one's personal position, marijuana may represent the complete moral decay of contemporary society or it may denote a painkilling substance for cancer...
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Tobacco Smoke: Health Hazards
7 pages in length. Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as the single most external threat to the health of the general public. The conflict over smoking has become perhaps the greatest morality play of late 20th-Century...
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Sudden Death Payoff - The Downside of Pumping Up with Drugs
A 6 page paper that explores the problems resulting from the use of performance and endurance enhancing drugs in athletic training programs as well as the use of drugs such as cocaine and marijuana to build mental confidence before athletic events...
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Medicinal Marijuana Should Be A Future Trend
This 12-page-paper presents a detailed discussion on the benefits of legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes. The purpose of the medicinal use, as well as the reasons it should be legalized are all discussed in-depth. Bibliography lists 10...
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The Facts on Heroin -- What parents Must Know:
This 6 page report discusses for at least the past three decades, the American public has had to face the fact that heroin is every bit as terrifyingly dangerous as the scare stories told in attempts to keep the baby boom generation away from...
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Ephedrine: Dietary Supplement or Dangerous Drug
A 5 page overview of the uses and effects of ephedrine, a drug also known as ma huang, ephedra, epitonin, and Ephedra sinica among the general public. Notes the use of the drug in legitimate medical applications but emphasizes that its use as a...
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The Dangers of Ecstasy
A five page essay on the recreational drug Ecstasy, its effects, and its dangers. The paper argues that even more dangerous than its potentially deadly side effects for the individual are the social effects of a population who believes that...
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Reflections Following Attendance at a AA/Alanon Meeting
This 6 page paper provides an overview of one individuals experiences upon attending an Alanon meeting. This paper considers the general perspectives on the meeting as well as specific experiences and emotions related to the specific elements of...
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Adult Children of Alcoholics
This five-page-paper presents an overview of Janet Woititz's , Adult Children Of Alcoholics. Bibliography lists one source.
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Alcoholism: Common, Serious and Expensive
(7 pp) It is easier to think of alcoholism like we think of any other disease. Some people are more at risk for the disease. People with the disease didn't cause it to happen. They can learn ways to live with the disease and take care of...
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Alcoholism and Its Adult Children
(5pp)Janet Geringer Woititz's (1990) Adult Children of Alcoholics synthesizes the signs that may enable any substance abuse counselor to recognize a client who is an ACoA, as many individuals, unfortunately, particularly students caught...
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Addiction
Substance abuse leading to addiction crosses all boundaries, effecting people of all ages, races, religious orientations and economic statuses. This 3 page paper examines the negative characteristics of the addiction process and discusses the...
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Drug Education Curriculum
It is important to address the needs of the student by building skills that would enable them emotionally, physically, and academically as they attempt to make sense of the presence of drugs in their lives. This 3 page paper provides an...
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Social Development Model
The adolescent stage is the most probable for onset of abusive behaviors and, as such, may be the best age for preventative measures. This 3 page paper explores the basic tenets of the social development model as presented by David Hawkins...
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