Army Substance Abuse Program: History, Roles, and Research
¶ … Army Substance Abuse Program, in terms of the program's history, its employment requirements, and the rationale behind them. It looks at various jobs within the hierarchy of this program, from the commanders…
Drug and Alcohol Abuse Over
This project consisted of adding two new sections to an existing project concerning drug and alcohol abuse. A findings section and a data analysis section were added, together with several new resources to extend the findings of the original project. Both adolescent as well as adult drug and alcohol abuse are discussed, together with their implications for educators, policymakers and clinicians.
Chronic ethanol use disorder in a 50-year-old female patient
Alcohol abuse is a condition that is characterized by a pattern of excessive drinking in spite of negative effects resulting from the use of alcohol on an individual's occupational, legal, educational, medical, and/or…
Health program design for disease prevention and health promotion
Adolescent alcohol abuse has been an ongoing public health problem for many years. While alcohol abuse trends tend to increase and subside over time, recent research continues to show an alarming level of alcohol use. For example, surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) show that alcohol use has dropped slightly when compared with previous years, in 2011 almost two thirds (65%) of high school seniors and almost one third (29%) of eighth graders had used alcohol within the past month.
Connection Between Combat Exposure and Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Combat is a significant risk factor for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and by extension, substance abuse. While research studies continue to find support for this relationship, recent findings suggest this relationship is weak at best. The dominant risk factors are the same for military and civilian populations, which include youth and mental illness. Combat exposure is therefore thought to aggravate substance abuse prevalence among veterans because they were exposed when young and already suffering from mental illness.