Results Alcohol Use Score: 2.6 The client's alcohol use score is 2.6. The maximum attainable score is 5, which indicates the belief that using alcohol is detrimental to one's social, emotional, and physical well-being. The minimum score of one indicates the belief that using alcohol can enhance one's social, emotional, and physical well-being. Therefore, the client's score of 2.6 indicates a split between view of alcohol as a harmful aspect during social events and as a social enhancer during social activities.…
Tell me: if somebody asked you whether you believed marijuana or alcohol was the more harmful substance, how would you respond? It’s a hot topic that has been debated amongst society for decades, but one has to wonder: why are one of these substances legal, while the other remains an illegal substance? In various cultures around the world, drinking alcohol has become a normalized activity, with many seeing getting intoxicated as a rite of passage into our adolescent years or as a celebration of reaching the legal drinking age. On the other hand, many individuals still view marijuana in a negative light, so what exactly makes the two different? Both are substances associated with decreasing a person’s inhibitions and is a foreign substance to…
High Risk Drinking 2 and/or while drinking (most of the time or always). ” As a student in the ASU, I have felt the cares from our campus that they try to protect us from being hurt by alcohol abuse. Although our campus community has tried many means to encourage students to control alcohol consumption, there are still many students that take for granted the rules, principles, the unpleasant consequences brought by the alcohol as well as the expectation their family and society have had on them. On our campus, we are not allowed to alcohol abuse and if someone goes beyond the rules, there will be serious punishments soon.…
Over 10 percent of kids are affected by an alcoholic parent (Buddy T). That means that over 10% of families are also affected by alcoholism. How alcoholism affects a family mainly has to do with who the alcoholic is, what the alcoholic does, and how the family reacts. First, we need to talk about who the alcoholic is.…
When it comes to wars against drug, Marijuana is known one of the biggest enemy in drug war. Kids growing up by listening to their parents that drugs is a taboo. But I found interesting is that the alcohol and tobacco, the two life threatening substance was illegal before are now legalized, why shouldn’t we legalize marijuana? In some states in United States, marijuana is legalized, some are strictly only for medical use and in some states marijuana is legal for recreational use.…
During the course of the semester I have learned about the many substances individuals can become addicted to, specifically alcohol. It is one thing to learn, read, and hear about in class what alcohol addiction can do to an individual; it is another to be able to personally hear and experience the stories of recovering addicts. Since a lot of our reading and class discussion has focused on the large problem of alcohol addiction in the United States, I chose to attend an Alcoholics Anonyms (AA) meeting. It was difficult at first to find an open meeting around my area. To start my search I searched online, looked in the newspapers, and lastly talked with family members.…
The system license for drinkers for alcohol holders would be a great idea because there's a lot of underage teen drinkers. Drinking and there's a lot of accidents involving teens and drunk drivers. Teens are getting in trouble and losing brain cells because of alcohol and the brain isn’t fully developed that's why People say wait till your 21. Drinking alcohol has an aftermath because it will attack your nervous system and will make you drunk and wake up with hangovers.…
Drinking and Driving: What age is most likely to drink and drive? Introduction Did you ever wonder what age group would drink and drive? That is our question that we are willing to find out by searching for articles that would relate to which age group will drink and drive.…
The number of deaths in the state of Texas from the years 2003-2012 landed at a whopping 13,138. One may ask what the cause could possibly be? Drunk Driving. Every 30 minutes someone in this country dies in an alcohol related crash. There are many organizations that were created to try to put an end to this epidemic, some of these being: MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), TADD (Teens Against Drunk Driving), IDDPA (International Drunk Driving Prevention Association) and many more.…
Alcohol is a common drug used nowadays as a downer although it is a common misconception that it is an upper. The process of making alcohol consist of having fruits, grains, and vegetables and the addition of ethanol through fermentation and was originally used to old plants about 10 million years ago. This helped maintain rotting fruit that had fallen off of trees. In the modern day alcohol has come to drinking for a good time with friends or as a means to relax.…
There is a large body of research as to why people become addicted but the biggest issue is the need to reduce the current amount of alcohol addicted individuals in both areas of binge drinking and alcohol dependence. The constant growth of binge drinking and alcohol dependence is a cause for concern in itself. This rapidly growing trend is so ingrained in the majority of societies it is a constant cause for concern for the fields of medicine and psychology.…
Character of the Clinical Issue Alcohol Use Disorder is a problem that is related to an individual’s use of alcohol that leads to negative effects on the individual’s life. According to the DSM-5 (2014), the level of which the undesirable effects of the substance may affect the individual’s life is what determines whether their disorder is mild, severe, or somewhere in-between. These impairments can affect the individual’s life by impacting their physical, mental, social, or professional functioning in a negative way. There are many symptoms and signs associated with alcohol use disorder. These symptoms include frequent intoxication, nausea, sweating, tachycardia, amnesic episodes (blackouts), mood swings, depression, anxiety, insomnia,…
n.pag.). With such high statistics, alcohol related deaths are imminent unless a change is made. One way to change society's views on alcohol is to properly educate students. Just like students are educated on the dangers and harmful effects of other drug use, they should be educated properly on the dangers of alcohol. The National Clinic for Health and Clinical Excellence reports that drinking prevalence increases almost forty percent from age eleven to age fifteen nationwide, making health education in the middle and high school years critical (“Interventions in Schools” 9).…
Abbie Hill Kendra Gallos English III 3/27/18 What is the best way to prevent deaths from drinking and driving? Did you know that drunk driving takes the lives of about 10,000 kids or adults per year? That’s almost 29 people a day.(Drunk Driving 1) It is also surprising to find out most of the people getting into accidents while intoxicated are kids under the age of 21 and not people that are over the age of 21.…
Alcohol has many different effects. Most of these are negative effects. Many people drink alcohol but do not realize just how dangerous the effects can be. Many adults or kids turn to alcohol when times get tough to try and make it through, or they look at a night of drinking as an amazing way to have fun and party, but there are serious consequences. Using alcohol and drugs can affect a person in many different ways.…