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Prescription Stimulant Use By Graduate Students, Matthew Donald Varga
Prescription Stimulant Use By Graduate Students, Matthew Donald Varga
Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to measure graduate student prescription stimulant use by assessing the extent of use, reasons for use, and poly-substance use. Graduate students (n = 1,015) enrolled at a large Southeastern university completed the Student Life Survey. The data were analyzed using a variety of analytical techniques including descriptive statistics, frequencies, and a stepwise logistic regression in order to answer the research questions guiding this study:
- What is the extent of prescription stimulant abuse among graduate students on college campuses?
- What are the reasons for graduate students’ illicit use of prescription stimulants?
- Are graduate students …
Health Risk Behaviors Among Maine Youth : Results Of The 1997 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Grades 7-12, Chuck Rhoades
Health Risk Behaviors Among Maine Youth : Results Of The 1997 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Grades 7-12, Chuck Rhoades
Maine Collection
Health Risk Behaviors Among Maine Youth : Results of the 1997 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Grades 7-12
Prepared for the Maine Department of Education by Chuck Rhoades of CERES Associates, Inc., Survey Administered by Pan Atlantic Consultants / Strategic Marketing Services (June, 1998).
Contents: Introduction / Methodology / Demographics / Safety, Violence & Suicide / Alcohol, Drug & Tobacco Use / Sexual Behaviors / Health Care, Physical Activity & Nutrition / References
Parenting The Transescent: An Education Program For Parents Of Middle School Students At Morgan Middle School, Michael P. Mccloskey
Parenting The Transescent: An Education Program For Parents Of Middle School Students At Morgan Middle School, Michael P. Mccloskey
All Graduate Projects
The purpose of this project was to design and develop a program to help parents become more effective in recognizing and responding to characteristics and behaviors of the transescent, with special emphasis on assisting parents with their child's transitions into the middle school and high school. To accomplish this task, current literature, research, and programs related to the parenting of the transescent were studied. Subsequently, a program was designed and developed for implementation at Morgan Middle School in the Ellensburg School District, Ellensburg, Washington.
Ua12/2/1 Phase - Drugs On Campus, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 Phase - Drugs On Campus, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald:
- Grundy, Julie. Reality Check: We’re a Town That Has Drugs – Rebecca Maldonado, Student Health Services
- Bernardy, Patrick. Local Drug Use: A Slow But Steady Rise – WKU Police, Audrey Spies
- Quarles, Mitchell. Know the Downers: Jail, Fines, Probation
- Hutchins, Chris. I Did It Because It Was Fun . . . I Did Them to Escape – Drug Abuse
- Bernardy, Patrick. Marijuana No Worse than Alcohol
- Hieb, Dan. Drugs Steal Freedom; Don’t Create It
An Analysis Of Substance Abusers' Field Dependence & Time Spent In Rehabilitative Therapy, Robert Fane
An Analysis Of Substance Abusers' Field Dependence & Time Spent In Rehabilitative Therapy, Robert Fane
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This project was designed to determine if significant differences existed between the level of psychological differentiation, as determined by the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT), of individuals entering a treatment center for chemical dependency and the length of stay at the facility.
The subjects consisted of 43 white males who were seeking treatment for addiction to mood altering chemicals at a regional treatment facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Each subject was interviewed to collect pertinent background information pertaining to past substance abuse and was evaluated to determine psychological differentiation, utilizing the GEFT.
It was determined through an analysis of variance …
Ua68/10/1 Dare In Nashville Schools 1988-89, John Faine
Ua68/10/1 Dare In Nashville Schools 1988-89, John Faine
WKU Archives Records
This report summarizes the results of a partial evaluation of the 1988-89 Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) effort implemented in all sixth grades in the Nashville, Tennessee, Metropolitan Public School system by trained instructors from the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department. As documented in the following pages, the evaluation effort had two major components.
1. An evaluation of the program by teachers and principals in all the participating schools.
2. Inner-City Study, an investigation designed to assess the impact of the program in elementary and middle schools that service those students thought to be most at risk to the threat of …