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Ua12/2/1 Phase - Drugs On Campus, Wku Student Affairs Nov 1994

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


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An Analysis Of Substance Abusers' Field Dependence & Time Spent In Rehabilitative Therapy, Robert Fane Dec 1992

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 …

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Ua68/10/1 Dare In Nashville Schools 1988-89, John Faine Sep 1989

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 …

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