January 12‚ 2007 from http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa18.htm Mothers Against Drunk Driving. (n.d.). Stats & Resources. Retrieved January 8‚ 2007 from http://www.madd.org/stats/0‚1056‚1112‚00.html National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Alcohol and the family. Retrieved January 13‚ 2007 from http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/Social/Module10JFamilies/Module10J.html National Institutes of Health.( November‚ 2000)NIH News Retrieved January 13‚ 2007 from ALLPsych online.
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Alcohol Abuse and Treatment: NWHIC (Excerpt) Alcoholism‚ also known as alcohol dependence‚ is a disease. Alcoholism is a chronic‚ often progressive disease with symptoms that include a strong need to drink despite negative consequences‚ such as serious job‚ relationships‚ or health problems. Like many other diseases‚ it has a generally predictable course‚ has recognized symptoms‚ and is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors that are being increasingly well defined. (Source: excerpt
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Alcoholism is the continued excessive and usually uncontrollable use of alcoholic drinks. There are many symptoms‚ complications‚ treatments and ways of prevention for alcoholism. Certain groups of people may be at a greater risk than others for several reasons. There are numerous factors in how people may become addicted. More than thirteen million Americans abuse alcohol‚ and over 100‚000 deaths are caused by alcohol. Symptoms of alcoholism include some‚ if not all of the following. Drinking
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body from any cause. The most important causes are hereditary haemochromatosis‚ a genetic disorder‚ and transfusional iron overload‚ which can result from repeated blood transfusion. Terminology Haemochromatosis or haemosiderosis Historically‚ the term haemochromatosis was initially used to refer to what is now more specifically called haemochromatosis type 1 . Currently‚ haemochromatosis is mostly defined as iron overload with a hereditary/primary cause‚ or originating from a metabolic disorder
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General Purpose: To talk about Specific Purpose: To talk about how black widows toxins Central Idea: how to identify black widow‚ the effect of the toxin‚ how to treat after being infected and how to avoid being bitten. Introduction * How to identify weather the black widow is a male or female * About 5% of all black widow attacks are fatal. The black widow‚ however‚ usually bites people only when its web is disturbed. And males black widow does not bite * No matter how poisonous the
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Walls also uses her diction to emphasize the pain Rex refuses to address. The word ‘hideous’ reflects the builtup pain he has buried deep within himself that he now has to acknowledge because of the sudden lack of solace in alcohol. Another case in which Walls uses the motif of alcoholism is in the abuse of it‚ which leads to the emotional and financial turmoil the Walls family undergoes. When the family
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The prominence of alcoholism in American literature‚ at least in the first half of the twentieth century‚ and the relationship between great authors and alcoholism has become somewhat of a literary cliché. Icons such as Ernest Hemingway‚ William Faulkner‚ Tennessee Williams‚ and Jack Kerouac are as famous for their work as they are infamous for their drinking habits. These authors have created a legend out of themselves just from their notorious habits of drinking. Of the seven native-born Americans
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that lifestyle‚ because according to Robert Huebner‚ from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism‚ nobody “can drink heavily and maintain major responsibilities over long periods of time. If someone drinks heavily‚ it is going
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addictions or alcoholism‚ and then make your child genius? Would you? Are you asking yourself how this could be done? Have you ever considered human genetic engineering? What is Human Genetic Engineering? Lets start by looking at the cell and the source of heritable traits. We know that all organisms are made up by cells and that new cells can only spring from existing cells. Cell growth depends upon the production of new cells and within each cell exists DNA. DNA contains the hereditary instructions
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------------------------------------------------- Optimism Optimism is a mental attitude or world view that interprets situations and events as being best (optimized)‚ meaning that in some way for factors that may not be fully comprehended‚ the present moment is in an optimum state. The concept is typically extended to include the attitude of hope for future conditions unfolding as optimal as well. The more broad concept of optimism is the understanding that all of nature‚ past‚ present and future
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