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.
Teen Alcohol and Tobacco Usage Definition Alcohol- Also called ethanol. ... Used for awareness or a stress-killer. ... They actually think that their capable of driving under the influence of alcohol... Death and Smoking Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death in America... That's more deaths than from AIDS, alcohol, and car accidents. ...
Alcohol damages the whole body. ... Alcohol hepatitis can lead to death. ... Alcoholism, also known as "alcohol dependence," it is a disease that includes four symptoms: Craving (A strong need, or compulsion, to drink), Loss of control (The inability to limit one's drinking on any given occasion), Physical dependence (Withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety, occur when alcohol use is stopped after a period of heavy drinking), Tolerance (The need to drink greater amounts of alcohol in order to "get high"). People who are not alcoholics sometimes do not underst...
~Alcohol~ What Is Alcohol Abuse? ... -Classification of alcohol effects in children The American Academy of Pediatrics uses the following criteria for diagnosing alcohol-related effects in children. ... Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), or fetal alcohol abuse syndrome (FAAS). ... Fetal alcohol effects (FAE), or partial fetal alcohol syndrome (PFAS). ... Alcohol-related birth defects (ARBD). ...
"Binge drinking, or heavy alcohol consumption at one sitting, is particularly hazardous to the fetus because very high levels of alcohol enter the mother's blood stream" ("Fetal Alcohol"). ... Exposure to alcohol in the third trimester can result in decreased fetal growth ("Fetal Alcohol"). ... Through research, alcohol has been proven toxic to the fetus ("Fetal Alcohol"). ... Fetal alcohol syndrome is "mild to severe mental and physical damage to the fetus caused by the mother's use of alcohol during pregnancy" ("Fetal Alcohol"). Individuals showing characteristics of fetal alcohol ...
With increased and habitual use, alcohol can push blood pressure up to a hazardous level, while at the same time, increasing heart size. ... The disruptive effects of alcohol last throughout the night, even when all alcohol has been purged from the system. ... Many people use alcohol as a way of dealing with social and other anxieties and this in turn can lead increased drinking and more frequent experiences of anxieties when sober. ... Because of the person's habit of using alcohol as a crutch, they themselves become weaker to resist these feelings of anxiousness, or "panic attacks". ......
We can all agree that alcohol is the root of many problems for many people. ... In this particular case it is alcohol abuse. As evidence I would like to point to a few studies that show that alcohol use by this group of people. ... These statistics clearly point out that alcohol abuse by college students is on the rise. ... In colonial times settlers brought alcohol from Europe to the colonies (Hall). ...
For these people, success is measured by longer periods of abstinence, reduced use of alcohol, better health, and improved social functioning. ... Treatment has two stages: discontinuing alcohol use -- sometimes called detoxification -- and recovery. ... For a person in an early stage of alcoholism, discontinuing alcohol use may result in some withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety and poor sleep. ... They must be used with care, since they may be addictive. Disulfiram may be used once the detoxification phase is complete and the person is abstinent. ...
Alcohol use among adolescents and its negative consequences is a well-known problem in our society. ... Alcohol ads tend to be much more emotional rather than factual, often using sexuality to directly appeal to consumers. ... They claim that advertising with sexual appeals plays on the feeling of sexual inadequacy of young people.3 Sports and the use of celebrities is another dimension of alcohol advertising that draws in youth. ... Two studies measured the hours of TV and all of them measured drinking behavior using a variety of outcome measures. ... While these studies showed a relations...
Scare tactics is one of the methods used to solve the growing problem of teenage alcohol abuse. ... However, the word "drug" has negative implications, and the attempt to disgrace a legal product, alcohol, which is used in moderation by most American adults, is ineffective. Denouncing alcohol as a "drug" may underestimate the use of illegal drugs; therefore, encouraging other drug use, especially among teenagers. Condemning the use of alcohol may create the false impression that parents who use alcohol in moderation are drug abusers (Underage Drinking & Alcohol Abuse 1). ... Religious groups ...
