ICEF, GROUP 2/2

Tutor: Yulia Poltorak

Student: Matyukhin Anton

reSearch Paper on Sociology

Substance abuse:

Alcohol Consumption and alcohol dependence among the youth.

Международный институт экономики и финансов, 2 курс, Высшая школа экономики.

1999
CONTENTS:

. Reasons for choosing this topic.
. The concept of alcohol.

V What is alcohol?

V Factors that influence alcohol’s effect.

V Immediate effects of alcohol.
. The concept of alcohol dependence (alcoholism).

V What is alcoholism?

V What are the symptoms?

V Three distinct stages of alcoholism.

V Long- term effects of alcohol.

V Treating alcoholism.
. Sociological research.

V Reasons for choosing the questionnaire as a method of my survey and a sample design.

V The list of questions.

V The analysis of a data received.
. Literature used.

Reasons for choosing this topic.

Though all people know the truth about the unprecedented guile of alcohol drinks, many of them fall in its skilfully set up traps. This is because of the character of alcohol, which can force to like itself, despite its harmful, sick and dissolute nature.

One sage said: “Wine brings four qualities to everyone, who drinks it.
In the beginning, a person starts looking like a peacock- he puffs, his motions are sail and dignified. Then, he gains a nature of a monkey and begins jesting and playing with everyone. Afterwards, he likens himself with a lion and becomes presumptuous, proud, sure of his power. But at the end he changes into a pig and wallows in dirt”.

The worst thing is that drunkards and alcoholics, being carriers of negative views and stereotypes of antisocial behaviour, not only constantly break the rules and norms of behaviour in different scopes of vital activity of people, but also actively promote the involvement in the drunkenness people around them, especially young.

It is stated by many studies that each drunkard and alcoholic renders demoralising influence on the average of 4-5 persons from the nearest ambience.