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"Alcohol Use"

             At this moment it is early Saturday night, a lot of students at this time are finding themselves getting ready for a night of fun. As I look around the halls, the Frat boys are on there prow of drunken girls, and there are rumors of house parties in the air. What is it that gets me to write a paper on Alcohol use? Well the answer is my use and love for the fermented and distilled beverages. In this paper I plan on discussing many factors of alcoholism and alcohol abuse. .
             Alcoholism is hereditary in both men and women, but apparently to a lesser extent in women. It has been reported that among heavy drinkers in the United States men outnumber women 4 to 1, but it is notable that men are more likely than women to drink in public while women may stay out of sight, possibly skewing results. This trend of males being heavier drinkers than females continues in other countries and cultures as well. In Native American populations an alcohol related diagnosis from Indian Health Services hospitals was more than twice as likely for a man than for a woman to be a heavy drinker. 26.5 % of deaths for Native American males and 13.2 % for females were alcohol related. These figures may indicate that alcoholic males are more likely to incur injuries or death as a result of alcohol.
             It is found that generally the same percentage of college students become alcoholics as does the general population. The reason is even while we are using or possibly abusing alcohol, we know that this only a period in our life that will soon come to pass. The community we are in allows us to drink and have less severe consequences compared to the possible consequences after college. Almost all students after college return to normal drinking habits. The life after college can no longer be as free lived with out as serious of consequences. Free lived means that for the most part we are drinking for fun and enjoyment in groups, not by ourselves.


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1. Alcohol, Drinkers and Drunk Driving

... crime (Youngerman & Dingwell, 2010, p.56), not all robberies are necessarily a violent crime however it still negatively affects the property owner. In the case of homicides, 19% were linked to alcohol use and the majority of those involved an argument or dispute (Spunt, Goldstein, Brownstein, Fendrich, & Langley, 1994, p. 43). A simple discussion could easily be misconstrued by someone that has been ... withdrawal is a major contributor to depression and suicidal thoughts due in part to the body deteriorating and the inability to quit drinking (Patel, 2010, p. 156). In addition, chronic ...

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2. Alcohol and Drug Use During Pregnancy

... 237). In her review, Zivi continues to give examples of women who have been charged in unique cases for seriously harming their children in uteruo due to chronic drug and alcohol use between 1987 and 2000. Despite all of those cases, there have been no official laws created to protect unborn children from prenatal drug and ... conducted over the past twenty years. The information Coles shares about prenatal substance exposure provides a hard hitting view of drug and alcohol use during pregnancy. According to Coles, prenatal alcohol exposure can cause major cognitive deficiencies, neuro-d...

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3. Drug & Alcohol Abuse

... are used to break down alcohol increases. This means that a person must drink more alcohol to experience the same effects as before, which leads to more drinking and contributes to addiction. When alcohol is withdrawn, and makes it difficult to overcome alcohol abuse and dependence. Stomach and intestinal ulcers can form because the constant alcohol use irritates and degrades the linings of ... these organs. Blood pressure increases as the heart compensates for the initially reduced blood pressure caused by alcohol. Male sex cell (sperm) production ... decreases because of decreased se...

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4. Alcohol

... aversive stimulation" (Bandura, 1969, p.536). To support this assertion Bandura (1969) suggests that there are several forms of social learning variables that may influence reinforcement contingencies associated with alcohol use (Abrams & Niaura, 1987). "Included are concepts derived from learning theory in the form of classical and operant conditioning" (Abrams & Niaura, 1987, p.135). However there are ... , 1987). The individual must also be able to acquire the self-regulatory, and delay of gratification skills that will allow for better decision making around alcohol use. "Overly posi...

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5. Alcohol

... by children can result in learning impairment, hyperactivity, and personality and behavior problems, because today's society has accepted the casual use of alcohol (Effects, 1996, 1). Among men, research suggests that greater alcohol use is related to greater sexual aggression (Shalala, 1995, 2). Students living on campuses with higher proportions of binge drinkers experience more incidents of assault and unwanted sexual advances ... as likely to have sex as those who have not. Nearly 4 in 10 (39%) sexually active teens that use alcohol has had sexual intercourse with four or more indiv...

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6. Affects of Drug use on adolecense

... ). This pattern of heavy, intermittent drinking is also prevalent among college students (White et al, 2002a) and young military personnel (Bray, 1996). While levels of alcohol use among adolescents remain high, the perceived risk associated with such use appears to be declining. From 1992 to 2002, the percentage of 12th graders perceiving "great risk of harm" associated with drinking four or five drinks ... adolescent reaches 8th grade, nearly 1/2 have had at least one drink, and 1/5 have been "drunk" (NIAAA, 2003). Alcohol use continues to kill more adolescents than all illegal drugs c...

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7. Alcohol

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8. Alcohol

... bad breath, it makes a person's face red and puffy, and it makes your stomach bloated. All those empty calories in alcohol can give a person what is called a "beer belly-. Alcohol robs a person of the ability to think or react. This is why alcohol use among teenagers is related to traffic crashes, drowning, vandalism, assaults, homicides, suicides, teenage pregnancies, and sexually transmitted diseases, just ... . This is really sad because the cost of a college education is extremely high and because of the irresponsible use of drinking alcohol, students are not getting all that they co...

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9. alcohol effects

... nations produced alcoholic drinks to ship over to the new colonies. This became a very lucrative business. From this, we can trace the origins of alcohol and how our culture became familiar with it. People continue to use alcohol in rituals and traditions, just like hundreds of years ago. But it has turned into a disease that punishes those who enjoy it too much. The ... to increase self-confidence, relieve stress, escape from personal problems, overcome shyness, or to overcome a poor self-image. Abuse of alcohol is defined as the use of alcohol interfering with physical, social, academ...

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10. Alcohol Use in College

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