Alcoholics Anonymous

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism confirms that alcohol consumption in any amount has damaging effects on the brain and the body. The institute also confirms that the damaging effects can persist long after an alcoholic achieves sobriety. What is obvious is that people who consistently engage in heavy drinking are at a far greater risk of permanently damaging their bodies and their minds. The long-term effects of alcohol abuse also reach farther than the body and the mind,…

If you have ever been rear-ended in a car you may have suffered from whiplash. It is the most common accident injury, and even a seemingly minor accident can cause that sudden jerking of your head backwards and forwards, leading to chronic neck and back pain, headaches, migraines or more serious injuries. Every year there are more than one million whiplash injuries, and in Australia the incidence of whiplash disorders is about 300 per 100,000 population. Research shows that around 20% of people…

Years ago Kirby Stolorski’s grandmother got into a wreck in the middle of the day. His family was dumbfounded when they found out that her blood alcohol limit was three times the legal limit. She had become an alcoholic right under their noses. Alcoholism is an addictive drug to diagnose since it is not always done right out in the open. One’s actions could affect those involved closely in their life. Substance abuse is the indulgence of an addictive drug that is a continuous and serious issue…

Adolescent Abuse of Alcohol The purpose of this assignment is to explore a social issue or health problem that impacts nursing care of the middle or high school age pediatric population. This paper’s topic is the use and abuse of alcohol in adolescents of high school age. Experimentation with alcohol is beginning at a younger age, and the number of those abusing it is increasing. This is considered an issue, due to an adolescent’s brain still developing, and the choices they make at this age…

To many individuals Alcohol is simply a drink, however it's one thing something that, it is a drug. Adolescents develop drinking issues for many reasons - because they're bored, because of peer pressure, because there is nothing else to do. A report last year by the National Drug analysis Institute found girls aged fourteen to seventeen were worse abusers of alcohol than eighteen to twenty four year recent men. The media portrays as Adolescents are drinking to excess and this can be, by many,…

EXT. THE LOST ARMS – NIGHT He walks back to the Lost Arms with the look of a man feeling much less weight on his shoulders, eagerly needing a few bottles of root beer float to get his strength back from a draining day. His demeanour suddenly changes as if he anticipates trouble would be waiting for him, he comes to stop. We get a close up from LEMONY’s P.O.V of an unusual car parked out the front with a red light on top. It seems like a police car, but as he gets closer it comes to look even…

Beer contributed heavily to the beginnings of writing and commerce and also had many health benefits to people of ancient civilizations. Writing was first invented to record the collection and rationing of cereal grains used for beer, bread and other goods. Beer also became a subject of writing as well. The topic of beer drinking is found in an excerpt of the world’s first literary work “The Epic of Gilgamesh” and in a survey of Egyptian literature it was found that hekt, the Egyptian word for…

On February 19, 2013, the Department of Human Services, Office of Program Review, Monitoring and Investigation (OPRMI), Fraud Investigations Division (FID) received an anonymous complaint from a concerned citizen alleging Donald Megginson is receiving SNAP/Medical benefits from DHS and resides at 310 Bogota Drive, Ft Washington MD 20744. The complaint stated Mr. Megginson identification was only for the purpose of employment and do not physically reside at 660 Kenyon Street, NW. On December 3,…

"Alcohol is the drug of choice among America's adolescents, used by more young people than tobacco or illicit drugs... there are 10.1 million underage drinkers in the United States... 39% of current 8th graders, 58% of 10th graders, 72% of 12th graders, and 85% of college students have tried alcohol The legal drinking age in the United States is set at twenty-one years of age. I believe that considering twenty-one as the legal age of maturity is ridiculous. Who is to say that just because an…

"It's cool to meet some of your friends" Shelley says to Johnathan. They are walking up to Steve's front door. "Yeah, my friends" Jonathan says. He keeps his head down the closer they get. Starting to wish they weren't there. They reach the door and Jonathan reaches out to knock. Within seconds Steve is in front of them ushering for them to come in. They go in to Steve's living room where Nancy is sitting. Cards and board games were scattered through out the room. So where some beers. Steve…