There are some 14 million people in the United States and 1 out of every 13 adults are considered alcoholics or at least experience drinking problems to some degree. Most people just don't understand the consequences of drinking. Alcoholism is a disease and unless something i...

Alcohol does many different things to your body. While drinking might make you feel good, abusing alcohol may lead to serious complications. It effects the body both mentally and physically. Alcohol will slur your speech, increase your reaction time, make you lose co-ordination, and causes impot...

All Negative Possibilities, No Good Outcome Proposition: Claim of policy. The minimum age for drinking alcohol should remain at the age of 21 in California. "Hey, you want a drink?" "Oh come on, just one drink, it won't hurt you. It's fun." "It's cool. Everybody does it...

Alcoholism and Its EffectsAlcoholism Alcoholism is when there is a progressive, excessive inappropriate drinking of alcohol. Alcoholism is thought to come from a combination of a huge range of psychological, social, and genetic factors. Alcoholism comes from emotional and sometimes physical depe...

Alcoholism is a wide-ranging and complex disease that heavily plagues society. Drinking is defined as the consumption of a liquid, and/or the act of drinking alcoholic beverages especially to excess. Every year alcohol is responsible for 1/2 of all murders, accidental deaths, and suicides; 1/3 of a...

On any given day in the United States... 10,657 babies are born. (US Census Bureau). Twenty of these babies are born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Twenty may seem as though it is not a lot, but when you compare it to the fact that this number is more than HIV positive, Muscular Dystrophy, Spina Bif...

Introduction One large component of American popular culture is alcohol: an addictive substance commonly used similarly as aspirin and caffeine. Alcoholism has no racial, sexual, or economical preference but instead is a malicious disease that attacks randomly. For most people who drink, alcohol is ...

When first approaching the topic of alcohol consumption and abuse, we must acknowledge alcoholism. Alcoholism is an illness which affects those who consume mass amounts of alcohol on a regular basis. An article about alcoholism, reviewed by Yvette Cruz in 2002, states that this ' illness can interfe...

Topic Description The topic I chose for the research assignment is children of alcoholics. I chose to focus more on the children that are involved in families of alcoholics rather than on the family as a whole, because I felt there would be too much information. Because I grew up in a stable, re...