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Simultaneous Co-use of Opiate: Benzodiazepine and Alcohol Among Rural and Urban Suicide Decedents

Acknowledgements: Contributors to this report included participating Violent Death Reporting System states; participating state agencies, including state health departments, vital registrars’ offices, coroners’ and medical examiners’ offices, crime laboratories, and local and state law enforcement agencies; partner organizations, including the Safe States Alliance, National Violence Prevention Network, National Association of Medical Examiners, National Association for […]

Suicide Awareness and Prevention Within High Schools

Overview of the topic Suicide is the number two cause of death in America amongst young adolescent teens, and yet we still seem to ignore mental health issues. As if they aren’t a major problem within our society. Suicide is a taboo subject for most, and I’d like to ask why is that? People seem […]

Annotated Bibliography on Youth Suicide Prevention – Jordan Schramm

The Center for Disease Control article “More Than a Mental Health Problem” discusses the prevalence of suicide in the U.S. and suggests that there are multiple factors that affect suicide ideations, attempts, and completions. Other influences such as relationships, substance use, physical health, financial health, and stress are noted in the article. The CDC also […]

Controlling Free-Ranging Kangaroo Populations in Australia with Hormonal Birth Control Implants

Marsupials are mammals that are defined by birthing their young prematurely and nurturing their offspring for the remainder of their developmental stage in a pouch covering the nipples (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2018). The most notable marsupials that come to mind may be the kangaroo, wallaby, wombat, or koala, all of which are endemic […]

Ethics of Birth Control

On 30 June 2014, the large family-owned corporation Hobby Lobby won a Supreme Court case allowing the company to no longer provide four forms of contraceptive to its nearly 28,000 employees. Citing that the company’s religion believed that the four of the prescribed contraceptives set forth by the Affordable Care Act (ACA)was abortion, not a […]

Margaret Sanger – the Legalization of Birth Contro

The Comstock Act of 1873 constructed a tragedy between women and their rights to birth control legalization. This act was a set of laws that restricted the use of any contraceptives such as medication for prevention of pregnancies after interactive sexual intercourses, which led to many women harming themselves in an attempt to terminate their […]

Hormones and Birth Control

Approximately sixty-two percent of women in the United States use contraception. Among the sixty-two percent of women, twenty-eight percent of them use birth control pills (Jones, Mosher, & Daniels, 2012). Contraceptives, more commonly referred to as birth control, contain estrogen and progestin hormones which ultimately prevent pregnancy. These hormones avert ovulation from occurring. It also […]

Poverty for Asylum Seekers and Refugees: the Role of Social Care Services in Social Life

Abstract Refugees and asylum seekers are some of the most vulnerable groups within a community. These groups are victims of human trafficking, abuse of their labour rights and grave instances of exploitation. National policies attached to these groups have faced scrutiny in recent years as various organisations raise concerns on the large number of individuals […]

Suicide and Suicide Prevention on the Navajo Reservation

In the United States, suicide is the tenth leading cause of death. Over fifty thousand individuals are subject to suicide annually. By definition, suicide is defined as death caused by self-directed injurious behavior with intent to die as result of the behavior (Webster’s Dictionary, 2018). White teenagers aged 15-24 have a suicide rate of 25.5 […]

Cognition and Suicide

Abstract We have brought together a compilation, and analyses, of research conducted by cognitive psychologists, and specialists in the field of suicide, and the ideation of suicide. The research articles analyzed used various research methods for the studies, and encompassed a diverse array of theories as to the cognitive processes that lead to suicide. Or […]

The Adoption Rights for same Sex Marriages

Before the 1850s, adoption was an informal process where all the parties knew each other. The first adoption law passed in Texas was in 1850 and it required the adoption process to be filed with the county clerk. Adoptions were originally designed to help infertile, middle-class, and largely white couples but over time adoption process […]

Health and Safety in the Sex Industry

Prostitution is one of the most provocative topics around the world ” one of the definitions of Prostitution the practice or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment (Oxford, 2018). The meaning itself can be complicated and construed in many ways by our society. Another factor that impacts how society interprets is […]

School Violence – Disturbance in Students Educations

School violence can include verbal and physical altercations. School violences also includes violent threats for bodily harm on people that are in the school or at school related events. The harm that can be causes is physiological and physical harm on individuals, schools, or communities. School violence is not a new concept it has been […]

School Violence: Physical and Verbal Attack

School violence is characterized as any physical or verbal attack on one while being on school property or grounds. The amount of school violence has been a huge issue in our society for so long, many could say it’s become ordinary. Since the year 2000, there has been a recorded number of 64 shootings incidents […]

School Violence: the Mental Health, Social Cognitive Development

Abstract School shootings are not a new-found issue in society, although they have increased within the last three decades. The majority of school shootings, or mass shootings, are happening within the high-school age bracket. Student’s that have been victims of school shootings are begging for a change and to be heard. After a shooting takes […]

Lowering the Drinking Age to 18

In today’s society there are many rules and regulations that are set forth to protect our youth. One of those regulations is the drinking age of our country. In the United States, the drinking age has been 21 since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed by Congress in 1984. When the drinking age […]

Legal Drinking Age in the United States

One topic that has a lot of notoriety all throughout the United States is the legal drinking age. Some argue that it should remain at twenty-one years old while others push for reducing it to eighteen and this has even caused some controversy. Many countries have the age at eighteen and this is influencing others […]

Huge Debate Worldwide: Minimum Legal Drinking Age

In all 50 states, the minimum legal drinking age is 21 years old. However, some exceptions do exist on a state-by-state basis for consumption at home, under adult supervision, for medical necessities, and other reasons. After all, if 18 years olds can serve our country, buy tobacco products and legally be considered an adult, then […]

Should the Age Allowed to Drink Alcohol be Lowered?

This has been an ongoing debate in the US for a couple years now. Some people think it would be better if it was lowered, while others do not. Underage kids drink all the time whether it’s legal or illegal. There are many sides to this argument but the one that has me most interested […]

Keeping Drinking Age of 21

Unarguably, the improvement in people’s living standard owes much to the scientific breakthroughs of technical advances as well as social aspects. So significant is keeping the drinking age of 21, which has been supporting effectively on young people. There is ongoing debate on whether keeping the drinking age of 21 has the positive or negative […]

A Fight against Sexism

The statement by Berlatsky (2013), Women have been fighting against sexism for a long time. If men can learn from them, it will be to everyone’s benefit, means that men should emulate women in efforts to fight sexism that is often overlooked in men. Men should emulate women, both in effort and organization, in the […]

Sexism in Sports

Sexism- Sexism, prejudice or discrimination based on sex or gender, especially against women and girls. Are women treated with the same standards as men? Burton, L. (2015). Underrepresentation of women in Sport leadership: A review of research. Sport Management Review, 18(2), pp.155-165. Women have had a great increase in participation in sports, however, their leadership […]

Group Counseling for Adolescent Immigrants and Refugees

Abstract Being an adolescent usually means a stafe in life associate with a period of transition from childhood to adulthood. Therefore, adolescence generally is co-related with puberty, which consists of a biological phenonemon marked by the increase of hormones, adrenal and gonadal, resulting in development of secondary sex characteristics. This stage is also associated to […]

Testing Clothing Standards

Based on Wilde’s (Nov 3, 2017) article in the 1980s, public schools were often compared unfavorably to Catholic schools. Wilde (Nov 3, 2017) noting the perceived benefit that uniforms conferred upon Catholic schools, some public schools decided to adopt a school uniform policy. Referring to the article Do Uniforms Make Schools Better? Wilde (Nov 3, […]

The History of School Dress Code

The use of school uniforms dress code in the U.S. started in the early 1900’s for parochial and private schools (Meleen, n.d.). In 1969, the US Supreme Court made a decision that both uniform proponents and opponents used to support their arguments. Specifically, in Tinker vs. Des Moines Independent Community School case, students in the […]

Suicide the Truth of it all

According to (Webster, 1961) Suicide is defined as the act or instance of taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally. The Center of Disease Control leading cause of death reports reported that suicide was ranked the tenth leading cause of death overall in the United States in the year 2016. It claimed the lives of […]

Suicide in the Teenage Population of E KY

“Teenage suicide is a growing issue in KY and as such there are several programs and projects related to the issue. This is a situation which has had an alarming spike in this area over the last few years. Current programs and projects directed to the macro client here in KY are Senate Bill 65 […]

Suicide Crisis in the United States

Epidemiology The suicide crisis in our country has shown prevalence for over twenty years going back to 1996. Although it has been an issue for as long as it has happened, over the past decade, suicide has become one of the main top 10 causes of death in the United States (Greenwald, 2018). In 2016 […]

Paradise Now and the Effects of Suicide Bombers in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

The film, Paradise Now, which was directed by Hany Abu-Assad and released on November 18th, 2005, tells the story of the last two days spent between two best friends who are recruited into becoming suicide bombers in Tel Aviv. Said and Khaled are two Palestinian mechanics who spend much of their time together as they […]

Suicide in the United States

Every year there are about 1,000,000 suicide attempts in the United States and around 50,000 people succeed. From 1999 to 2014 suicide rates have significantly increased by 24%, which means that from a group of 100,000 people 13 will commit suicide. (AFSP, 2017) Several factors such as persons’ feelings or psychological conditions play a role […]

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