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In the Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Addiction

In the Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Addiction
The Transtheoretical Model for Behavior Change (TTM) and the Health Belief Model (HBM) are both popular models used in health care for changing behaviors. Professionals in the field of addiction, alcohol and drug, commonly refer to both models in their treatment of addicts. Both models are useful and have both positive and negative aspects.
The Transtheorietical Model states that there chronological stages that a person will travel through as they battle an addiction (Korcha, Polcin, Bond, Lapp & Galloway 2011). The first stage is pre-contemplation, the addict is active in their addiction Continue reading...

NHTSA Traffic Safety Facts 2012 Data Overview

1.a The two predominant loss totals that are presented in Table 1 on page 2 of the NHTSA Traffic Safety Facts 2012 Data Overview are: (1) the number of people killed in specified time frames (from 2003 to 2012) where the greatest loss (total number of people killed) was identified in 2005 at 43,510; and (2) the number of people injured for the same time period was greatest in 2003 at 2,889,000 total people injured .
1.b An example of a loss rate presented in Table 1 is the fatality rate per 100,000 population; specifically 14.78 Continue reading...

Introduction

Humans are having the nature of social animals, and therefore, they learn from developing social relations with each other. One can recognize the process of professing as a sophisticated sort of literally give and take to say the least. The normal socializing experience is a necessity to lead a productive life (Bell and Mjoll, 456). The drinking problem in adolescents is growing with the passage of time because they started to consider the practice as heroic in stature. The film and media practices in this regard impress the young minds to indulge themselves into alcohol consumption in the recent Continue reading...

IRB Application

IRB Application

Collaborators in Outside Institutions:
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

1 Choke Cherry Road

Rockville, MD 20857

Tel: 800-487-4889
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) conducts the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) in collaboration with the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality. The survey is conducted at the national level and collects information about alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use in the United States residents at the age of 12 or older. The dataset is available via the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) and Continue reading...

The World today is faced by so many social problems that are either as a result of human embracing new technologies as well as other ragging behind current technologies. Human changing their social life daily by introducing new lifestyle has created some major social problems facing them today. We will majorly focus on alcoholism as a current social problem facing modern generation.
Alcoholism is a progressive chronic disease that includes complications in regulating once drinking, being preoccupied by alcohol and continuing to use of alcohol even when it’s causing problems. It’s usually difficult to see your drinking Continue reading...

Guerette, R. T. (2007). Immigration Policy, Border Security and Migrant Deaths: An Impact Evaluation of Life Saving Efforts under the Border Safety Initiative. Criminology & Public Policy, 6(2), pp. 201-222.
As a response to the increasing number of illegal immigrant death in the US, the government developed and implemented the Border Safety Initiative (BSI) to improve safety and security in the southwest border. The main cause of illegal immigrant death relate to poor safety and security in the way that they attempt to enter US borders illegally following the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP). The USBP made it difficult for Continue reading...

Social media is already a part of the new generation. Almost 70% teens from 12-17 years old spend time in social networking sites on a daily basis. This shows that almost 17million of teenagers use internet all at the same day. This simple example shows how much social media could be thought as a part of a child’s life. There has been reports as well that there are some online users that are becoming addicted to it the same way some gets addicted to alcohol and other substances, but it is not yet being clinically classified as a Continue reading...

NHTSA Traffic Safety Facts 2012 Data Overview

1. From the table-based data provided in page 2:
a. The two predominant loss presented are as follows: the number of people killed totaling 43,510 in 2005 and the number of people injured totaling 2,889,000 in 2003 .
b. An example of a loss rate which is seen to be presented in Table 1 is the injury rate per 100,000 population where 996 percent was reported in 2003 .
c. To explain the fundamental difference between a loss total and a loss rate, one contends that the main disparity lies on the manner by which the numbers Continue reading...

Veteran Depression Related To Substance Abuse

Veteran Depression Related To Substance Abuse

INTRODUCTION

Even while taking into account the fact that significant share of the veterans, returning from warfare (for instance, Iraq and Afghanistan) do not represent any deviations in their behavior and health condition, as well as the traumatic brain injury has not been experienced by them, each veteran has experienced a period of readjustment (or it is also referred as rehabilitation) within the process of reintegration into life with community, family, and friends.
The juggling of family and military obligations usually takes its place in veteran’s life as one reintegrates into United States Continue reading...

Jan Diehm, an author for the Huffington Post came up with 12 reasons marijuana use should be legal. The article was published around the time Portland, Me., and three Michigan cities had just passed legalization laws. A year and a half later, some parts of the country are still looking towards legalizing the herb.
Among the top reasons to legalize cannabis is the sourcing of American jobs on marijuana farms, taxes on marijuana can go towards funding schools and other community programs, marijuana use could curb drinking and its consequences, and the government will save money from less arrests Continue reading...