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    time at parties and such, Alcohol abuse poses a negative effect on our college experience in many different way. During college, men and women are highly exposed to Alcohol use. According to a study from the Center for the Study of Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State University (2009), there is a clear linkage between Alcohol abuse and academic performance. From their result, there is an inverse correlation between student’s Grade Point Average and the amount of Alcohol consumption. Every year,

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    Part 3 Alcohol, from the time of our forefathers, has been in our society and the abuse of alcohol as became more aggressive and damaging than ever. Alcohol abuse affects our society from infancy to late adulthood and as a whole alcohol abuse disrupts the places where we work, our family life, and our spiritual being. The chronic use of alcohol has been an issue for many years and has a great effect on the young adults of today. Alcohol can ignite disruptions in their daily growth as productive

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    Behavioral Intervention Strategies for Alcohol Abuse Andrew J. Leonard Midland University There is no doubt that college campuses are filled with alcohol and parties. Many students engage in alcohol consumption and some also use drugs. Although alcohol use is widely accepted in the college student population there are intervention plans attempting to limit alcohol consumption to protect students from the negative consequences associated with alcohol abuse. This is a compilation of a few different

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    The members of the U.S. Military are not excluded in heavy alcohol use. Their high tempo jobs in the military along with intense training and deployments into combat areas are a few of the reasons why they have a greater risk of alcoholism. They drink to help deal with stressful situations, loneliness, and boredom. Binge drinking on the weekends and heavy drinking during the week are the biggest staples of their alcoholism. Because of certain policies in the military many of the people that need

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    Alcohol abuse in high school teens is very common . Three-fourths of high school seniors have experimented with alcohol, according to a report by the Fairfax, Va.-based Society for Prevention Research.(M. C. B 1) . 95% of the time high schoolers start drinking because of peer pressure . Also, males are likely to start drinking before females do .Teens that drink often are three times more likely to commit self-harm such as cutting or suicide attempts than teens that don’t drink. Adolescent drinking

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    everything is centered on excessive consumption of alcohol. According, to Healthy People, Putnam County was ranked number two in the state of Ohio for the second year in a row in alcohol consumption (Putnam County Sentinel, 2014). Approximately twenty four thousand of the thirty four thousand residents in Putnam County, Ohio are over the age of twenty one, and have access to more than one hundred and thirty establishments that serve alcohol (Ohio.gov, n. d.). Meanwhile, the United States Department

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    Alcohol and Drug Abuse Alcohol is a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent. (Online Dictionary) Although it is legal in the United States it is still illegal to those who aren’t twenty one years of age and other. This includes those persons of age purchasing alcohol for those under age. To some college students, heavy drinking that leads to vomiting is not alcohol abuse but simply having a good time. Alcoholism or alcohol dependence is a chronic disorder characterized by compulsive

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    Alcohol Abuse In today’s society every young, old, and middle aged person deals with alcohol abuse. Alcohol abuse affects our family, our body and our behavior; however, there are many ways to get help such as family guidance, support groups, behavioral therapy and many more. The definition of alcohol abuse or problem drinking is diagnosis of alcohol use disorder, it’s like a disease. It’s a pattern of drinking alcohol in results negative work. The person that abuses alcohol continues to use it despite

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    Alcohol Abuse Drinking alcohol is allowed after a specific age and is not considered illegal, harmful or immoral. However, consuming alcoholic beverages frequently may lead to negative consequences. The main issue is to understand if an individual is having problems with alcohol. It is difficult to distinguish between moderate or social drinking to actual problem drinking. Alcohol abuse can become a problem of anyone, therefore it is important to recognize warning signs in time and get rid of them

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    effects of female alcohol abuse at Stanford. To measure this, we will look at how two different factors—a student’s first experience drinking alcohol and the dorm rules regarding alcohol—affect their relationship with alcohol during their freshman year. This is an important topic to study because of the prevalence of alcohol abuse on college campuses nationwide. By examining this research topic more closely at Stanford, the university will be able to better address students’ alcohol related needs here

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