Year: 1993
Type: book
Abstract: Adolescents and AlcoholWhat is the legal drinking age across Canada?What is AADAC's position concerning the legal drinking age?What is the trend in drinking among teens?Are there differences in the treatment needs of adolescents and adults?9Impaired Driving 10 What are the drinking and driving laws in Canada?What are the penalties for drinking and driving offences that cause bodily harm?What are the penalties for drinking and driving offences causing death?How many traffic collisions involving injuries are alcohol-related?How many drinking teenage drivers are involved in casualty collisions?How many licence suspensions for impaired driving occur each year?Alcohol Consumption and Sales 12 How much do Albertans drink?How much do Albertans spend on alcohol?How much alcohol is sold each year in Alberta?Social Costs of Alcohol Abuse 13 How many deaths result from alcohol-related causes?What types of costs are associated with workplace alcohol use?How many hospitalizations are alcohol-related?What other costs are associated with alcohol abuse?The Family and Problem Drinking 15 How does problem drinking affect the family?How does alcoholism affect children in the family?Should the family of an alcoholic seek help?l6 Is there help available for the family of an alcoholic?l6 How can the family motivate the alcoholic to seek treatment?Is there legal protection available to the family of a problem drinker?Marijuana What are the short-term effects of marijuana use?What are the long-term effects of marijuana use?What is the law in Canada concerning marijuana?How many people use marijuana?How many drug offences are marijuana-related?What is AADAC's policy concerning marijuana?Tobacco What is in a cigarette?What are the short-term effects of smoking tobacco?What are the long-term effects of smoking tobacco?What is the trend in tobacco use?How many deaths are related to smoking tobacco?What is environmental tobacco smoke (second-hand smoke)?What is passive or involuntary smoking?What are the risks associated with passive smoking?Cocaine What is cocaine?How is cocaine used?What is free base cocaine?What are the short-term effects of cocaine use?What are the long-term effects of cocaine use?Is crack more dangerous than cocaine?Is cocaine addicting?How many people use cocaine?How many drug offences are cocaine-related?Caffeine What is caffeine?How much caffeine do various products contain?What are the short-term effects of caffeine use?How much caffeine is too much?Solvents/Inhalants What types of products contain solvents or inhalants which are abused?What are the short-term effects of solvent or inhalant use?What are the long-term effects of solvent or inhalant use?Can solvent or inhalant use be fatal?What is methyl alcohol?Other Drugs What are amphetamines?What are barbiturates?What are tranquilizers?What is LSD?What is heroin?What is methadone?AIDS ...34 What is AIDS?What causes AIDS?How is HIV transmitted?Who is at risk for contracting HIV infection?How many AIDS cases have been reported?How can AIDS be treated?Treatment and Prevention of Alcohol and Drug-Related Problems What is AADAC's treatment and prevention philosophy?What prevention services does AADAC offer?What is involved in AADAC's treatment programs?How many people received services from AADAC treatment facilities?What is Alcoholics Anonymous?Can someone with an alcohol or other drug problem be forced into treatment?Is abstinence the only answer to alcoholism?
Authors: Margolee. Horn, Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission., Stewart C. Clark, Bette. Reimer
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2248945557