1% of them experienced attempted rape cases. However, this did not account for variations of semesters (Mohler-Kuo, Dowdall, Koss, & Wechsler, 2004)
The report further indicates that young women are considerable at risk of becoming victims. In addition, statistics according to the National College Women Sexual Victimization state that one in every 36 women experience attempted or complete sex by the end of a college school year (Marshall, Roberts, Donnelly & Rutledge, 2011)
Implication includes the following: A wealthy alumna may offer scholarships on the condition that only African-American students get admission: a faculty member accused of sexually harassing a student. A student may want his religious organization or, on the other hand, a member of the faculty in the university or college may challenge promotional procedures or other activities (Kaplin & Lee, 2011)
About 1700 college students aged an estimate between 18-24-year die unintentionally because of alcohol and drug abuse. Most of these deaths are a result of motor vehicle accidents or injuries from assault (O'Malley & Johnston, 2002)
The DARE officials have found it very difficult to accept that the program was not effective, however this is true, something that has delayed the change of the curricular. Much of this is attributed to the loss aversion strategies (Ennett S.T., et al
America currently spends five times more money in jailing drug dealers than it did towards the end of the 20th century. It is pointless taking low-ranking street corner dealers to prison where they are going to spend three years and get released (Fareed Zakaria, 2012)
Secondly, when the condition appears, it persists involuntarily. Alcoholics crave for alcohol irresistibly and their drinking habit is uncontrollable once it has begun (Fingarette, 1990)
The program has been there for quite sometime considering that it was developed in 1983 when drug use rates among the school going children kept increasing. At its formative stage, its curricula basically reviewed existing prevention program especially the Project SMART (Jarlais, Sloboda, Friedman, Tempalski, McKnight & Braine, 2006)
Any legislation that prohibits advertisement of prescription drugs directly to consumers violates the citizens' constitutional rights. By the virtue of the fact that doctors, hospitals, and healthcare insurance providers are allowed to advertise their services directly to the consumers of their services, it therefore follows that drug companies be allowed to advertise their brands directly to the consumers (The People's Pharmacy, 2013)
Health Science in Regards to Drugs and Alcohol Legalization of drugs When Colorado and Washington legalized the use of marijuana for recreational purposes, issues related to legalization of all drugs became subject of public debate. Those who voted for legalization of Marijuana in these two states argued that legalization of these drugs would generate revenue, deter black market activities, and check against lose of tax resources used by law enforcement agencies (Will, 2012)
Research evidence indicates that individuals who report alcohol-related problems are more at risk for intimate partner violence than those who do not report these problems, and symptoms of alcohol dependence are also noted concurrently in both male and female perpetrators of violence (Raul pp). In the National Family Violence Surveys, researches found that rates for female-to-male assault by wives is nearly equal to the rates for male-to-female assault by husbands, and appears that female-to-partner aggression and violence may be a significant issue in couples who engage in violent dynamics (Hien pp)
Furthermore, abused women are at high risk for suicide due to feelings of hopelessness and self-induced or attempted abortion (Wood pp). Prenatal care-based studies report that from 4 -- 26% of patients are violence victims before pregnancy, whereas 1 -- 17% are violence victims during pregnancy (Martin pp)
The study revealed that among the women who drank alcohol during the year before pregnancy, frequent drinking was somewhat more common among those who experience each type of violence compared to women who did not experience such violence (Martin pp). In an article in the March 01, 2005 issue of "Journal of Studies on Alcohol," Caetano Raul revealed the findings of his study that investigated the relationship between partner violence (male-to-female and female-to-male) and heavy drinking (consuming five or more drinks per occasion) and the effect on marital separation (Raul pp)
Physical Abuse in Relationships Due to Drugs and Alcohol Family violence has become a significant public health issue in the United States (Wood pp)
In all three groups, participants were abstinent on roughly 20% of days, on average, before treatment began, and the fraction of alcohol-free days rose to about 80% a year after treatment ended." (Arkowitz & Lillenfeld, p
According to Kurtz, "most members of Alcoholics Anonymous do speak of their alcoholism in terms of disease: the vocabulary of disease was from the beginning and still remains for most of them the best available for understanding and explaining their own experience."(Kurtz, p