Essays on Alcohol Intoxication

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POST 1 I agree with your statement that alcohol intoxication and the use of mobile phones while on the road are among the most common causes of motor vehicle accidents. Car accidents can be avoided with strict implementation of laws and greater fines. In 2013, over 3000 individuals died due to distracted driving (Bartlett, 2015). Hence, whenever necessary, drivers have to pull over and do their phone call/text businesses or they hang up for a while and focus on the road. In various states now, driving with a hand-held phone is considered illegal. As for drunk driving, in 2012 ...

The connection between alcohol consumption and domestic violence is one of vital importance in society. Modern culture has found a way to solve many of society’s ills, but the dangers that women and children face from the men in their lives are still all too real. The articles under consideration in this paper look at the correlations between intoxication and domestic violence. The methodologies and studies have similarities and differences with implications on their outcomes. However, the general purpose of both is to look for connections that social planners and public health planners can use to improve public education ...

Background of the study

The content of alcohol in the blood stream popularly known as the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is the main source of evidence that the police present to the courts to decide if or not an individual has been driving while drunk. The BAC level is tested by the use of an ‘alco-blow’ device known as a breathalyzer, blood and urine tests conducted in clinical facilities. High amounts of alcohol in the blood system may affect proper driving as drunken persons seem to be oblivious of the danger that they expose themselves and other road users by driving under alcohol influence. ...

Research Article

Strandheim, A., Holmen, T.L., Coombes, L. & Bentzen, N. (2009) Alcohol Intoxication and Mental Health Among Adolescents. Child and Ad9olescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2009, 3:18.

Protection of Human Participants

According to Orb et al (2001), protection of human participants or subjects in any research study is imperative. Procedures outline for protecting human participants include equitable selection of subjects, obtaining informed consent, ensuring privacy and confidentiality, assessing the risk-benefit ratio and providing safeguards when using deceptions (Burn & Grove, 2011). The benefit of this particular study is to establish the relation between alcohol intoxications and mental health problems, with focus being placed on adolescents. In ...

Mental and psychiatric illnesses have are on a rise especially with the dynamism in social, economic and even political changes. These factors have made people liable to mental conditions. This paper will review the diagnosis using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) classification and justify the diagnosis. The paper will also outline a case formulation.

PART 1-DIAGNOSIS BASED ON DSM-IV-TR

Robert Jones clearly shows a clinical mental disorder and other clinical conditions that require further medical attention. On the basis of the multiaxial assessment of the mental illness, Robert is an alcoholic who clearly depends on alcohol. Alcohol as a drug ...

Alcohol is considered one of the deadly vices one can learn as a person enters his legal age of `18 or 21. It is also considered the deadliest drinks a person could ever consume as many have acquired health complications with too much drinking of the substance. Heart attacks, kidney and liver complications, and organ failure are the known complications due to alcohol. However, cases of teenage consumption of alcohol are slowly growing as alcohol is now easily purchased and obtained. Many have fell into the state of addiction and seek more alcohol drinks with higher alcohol percentage, putting them in ...