HiI am a Masters of Counselling student. I have an assignment for Counselling for Addictions Unit, that requires to find and analyse 10 reliable and peer reviewed journal Articles on a specific chosen...

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1- Dietz, P., Striegel, H., Franke, A. G., Lieb, K., Simon, P., & Ulrich, R. (2013). Randomized response estimates for the 12‐month prevalence of cognitive‐enhancing drug use in university students. Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, 33(1), 44-50.
Dietz et al. have detailed in this article the estimate of the use of cognitive enhancing drugs by college students. The estimate was gathered from hand-filled questionnaires that were distributed based on the randomized response technique. The survey sought to calculate the prevalence of students self-administering cognitive enhancement drugs for solely cognitive purposes and not health purposes. This research is useful for my study as it provides an important cause for college students administering drugs and that is cognitive use. The limitation of this research was that it used the randomized response technique which is direct and not very specific or conclusive. The study concludes that further research needs to be performed for better estimation of drug use. This research provides a one of its kind result on drug use for cognitive purposes. It will provide the necessary evidence for my paper that students use drugs, not just for entertainment purposes but also for enhancing their cognitive abilities.
2- Blanco, C., Okuda, M., Wright, C., Hasin, D. S., Grant, B. F., Liu, S. M., & Olfson, M. (2008). Mental health of college students and their non–college-attending peers: results from the national epidemiologic study on alcohol and related conditions. Archives of general psychiatry, 65(12), 1429-1437.
In this research Blanco et al. compares the mental health of two groups aged 19-25 in relation to alcohol and substance abuse. One group consists of college attending individuals while the other group consists of non-college attending individuals. The study used face to face interviews to derive its results. This study is useful in that it provides a necessary comparison about the effect of attending college on the use of drugs and alcohol among individuals of college attending age. The study was exposed to the limitation of face to face interviews which wouldn’t necessarily produce honest results. The study concluded that the psychiatric disorder rate was the same in both the college attending and not attending groups, however, the college attending population was observed to be at a higher risk for alcohol use disorder. In addition, college students largely avoided seeking treatment for any mental or addictive disorder. This highlights the need for treatment and intervention. This research will provide the statistical support for my study stating the increased risk of college-going students for alcohol and drug use disorders.
3- White, A., & Hingson, R. (2013). The burden of alcohol use: excessive alcohol consumption and related consequences among college students. Alcohol research: cu
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This interesting research by White and Hingson provides an in-depth study of the causes and consequences of excessive alcohol use amongst college students. The research is based on several other studies in the field of alcohol abuse. The research seeks to examine the various implications of the use of alcohol and the causes underlying the high risk of college students to alcohol abuse. This study is useful because it details on the various causes that encourage college students into excessive drinking and then details on the hazardous consequences of these. The study is limited to other research and findings and has no original research of its own. The study concludes that there are several external factors that guide students towards drinking and often result in accidents,...