Report on Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Smoking among UK Young Adults

This report investigates the impact of alcohol consumption, drug abuse, and smoking among young adults in the UK, aiming to understand the prevalence, causes, and effects of these behaviors. The research methodology involves data collection from online sources, articles, and journals, followed by data preparation and analysis using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed approaches. The results highlight the detrimental effects of alcohol consumption on body organs, its contribution to clinical issues, and its association with injuries and violence among teenagers and young adults, often influenced by social media and peer pressure. The conclusion emphasizes that the risks of alcohol consumption outweigh any potential advantages for young people, with associated dependence and violent behavior being significant concerns. Project management aspects, including project collaboration and learning reflection, are also discussed, highlighting the importance of communication skills and the benefits of promoting awareness campaigns about the harmful effects of substance abuse. Desklib provides access to similar reports and study tools for students.

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TITLE..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
RESEARCH AIM............................................................................................................................1
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES............................................................................................................1
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY....................................................................................................1
Data Collection............................................................................................................................2
Data Preparation..........................................................................................................................2
Data Analysis...............................................................................................................................3
Results..........................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................4
PROJECT MANAGEMENT...........................................................................................................4
Project plan..................................................................................................................................4
Project collaboration....................................................................................................................4
Learning reflection.......................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

TITLE
"Alcohol consumption, drug abuse and smoking among young adults in the UK."
INTRODUCTION
Alcohol and tobacco are generally the most broadly used psychoactive substance across the
nation. Consuming alcohol is generally the leading cause and is associated to the major burden of
the illness in an underdeveloped as well as the evolving countries. Within UK, it is generally the
third most prevalent element for the leading illness as well as the injuries within the developed
countries as well. In this, addiction is generally referred to as a chronic, relapsing illness as well
as is characterised by a compulsive drug seeking as well as an abusive it is because of the long
lasting chemical alterations within the brain. In this, there are the cultural as well as the social
elements which can put the public at higher risk (Alley, Kerr and Bae, 2020). Lack of adequate
education, Poverty, stressful environment and unemployment are generally at higher risk. The
environmental risk elements are generally the characteristics within a person’s surrounding
which can enhance their possibilities of becoming addicted towards the drugs like family, school,
community and peers as well.
RESEARCH AIM
To analyse the impact and effect of alcohol consumption, drug abuse and smoking among young
adults in the UK.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
 To understand the notion of alcohol consumption, drug abuse and smoking among young
adults in the UK.
 To measure the possible causes and impact of alcohol consumption, drug misuse and
smoking among young adults in the UK.
 To evaluate effective interventions to minimize the impact of alcohol consumption, drug
misuse and smoking among young adults in the UK.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The concept of research methodology generally refers to a pathway of explaining how the
analyst usually intends to carry the investigation. Research methodology is generally a logical as
well as a systematic pathway in order to resolve the specific issues that arises among public.
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Here, the research methodology is done over the research title that is impact of alcohol
consumption, smoking and drug abuse among young adults in the UK (Archie and Cucullo,
2019).
Data Collection
Data gathering mainly refers to a process of collecting as well as measuring the effective
information on the interested variables, in an established systematic fashion which can allow one
to answer the chosen research topic as well as can evaluate the possible results. The information
has been gathered from online sources and from other sources such as books, articles and many
more. In this, the database is generally used to give a specific aspect that is linked with the
chosen topic and it is quite appropriate for the selection of data and collection as well. Within
this, both PubMed and PMC is a big database which is used to collect the effective information
that is regarding with the topic such as Alcohol consumption, drug abuse and smoking among
young adults in the UK. In addition to this, it usually helps to display the necessity for the
collection of a well-organized information that can be easily accessed, updated and managed as
well. The information about the chosen topic can be effectively retrieved from online sources
like PubMed central and many more. The database generally includes numerous of articles and
Journals that can include an abstract along with introduction with English language as a primary
language.
Data Preparation
Data preparation is generally a procedure of cleaning as well as transforming the raw
information earlier to processing as well as analysis on the research topic which is impact of
alcohol consumption, smoking and drug abuse among young adults in the UK. Preparation of the
data is mainly an essential step earlier to processing as well as can often include the reformatting
of the chosen information, making specific corrections to the information selected and joining of
the effective data sets in order to enrich the information as well. in addition to this, after the
gathering of information, it is quite essential to discover every dataset. The specific step is all
about getting to know the effective information as well as understanding what particularly has to
be done prior the information becomes useful in a particular context. While preparing the
effective data, the research methods mainly include some specific methods that is deductive and
inductive along with its assessment which is particularly based over various elements depending
on significant choices, research aim as well as its limitation and personal opinions as well. For
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the research, there is being used an inductive approach that generally depicts that research has
begun by effectively gathering the information which is quite relevant to the topic of interest that
is alcohol consumption, smoking and drug misuse among young adults in the UK.
Data Analysis
The analysis of data can be done through three main approaches such as qualitative,
quantitative and mixed approaches. In this, the data analysis is mainly a process of systematically
applying the statistical as well as the logical techniques in order to describe as well as illustrate,
recap or can evaluate the information more efficiently. In context with qualitative approach, it
can generally deal with the non-numerical data that can be collected for chosen topic. The
rationale for using the qualitative research approaches is important to give an input which is
helpful to uncover the specific motives behind the visible as well as a measurable occurrence.
Within this, the data that is being extracted can become more critical when explaining as well as
interpreting the collective finding that is obtained via the quantitative approaches. In this, the
qualitative approaches may be used for a descriptive study, for effectively formulating as well as
designing the research issues, inputs for efficiently structuring the questionnaires generally as a
primary sources of the research enquiry for the analysis of clinics. In context with quantitative
approach, the information gathered is mainly based over the digits and numbers as well as can
involve the number of survey of entire public among a group (Baiden, Mengo, Boateng and
Small, 2019). Furthermore, the mixed approaches can include the methods that are significantly
based over both the aspects like quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Results
The result section generally involves the information regarding the findings of the research
topic that is significantly based over the methodology which is implemented to collect the data.
In this, the results section should state the effective findings of the investigation that is being
arranged within a logical sequence without any bias or any interpretation. Here the result section
can significantly explain the effective information regarding the chosen topic such as alcohol
consumption, smoking and drug misuse among young adults in the UK. It has been analysed
about the chosen research topic the effects of consuming alcohol over the entire body organs as
well as its role within the development of various clinical issues mainly consisting liver cirrhosis,
cardiovascular illness and fatal abnormalities as well. It has been determined that consuming
alcohol among the teenagers and young adults can effectively contributes towards injuries,
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violence and severe accidents as well. Within the teenagers, it has been identified that they
generally consume drugs, alcohol and smoking with the influence of social media, peer pressure,
having curiosity and many other influences. In the early age group, excessive consumption of
such harmful materials can significantly damage the organs like brain, liver, cardiac system,
cancer, HIV as well (Gass and et. al., 2021).
Conclusion
It has been concluded by the research that the overall influence of consuming alcohol over
the mortality is generally assessed within two pathways such as by effectively conducting the
meta-analysis by simply using an epidemiological study which can examine all the elements that
have contributed towards mortality. Another one is by joining the potential risks for several
alcohols caused illness with the weighted prevalence or the specific incidence of each respective
illness. Within teenagers as well as the young people, the potential risk of consuming alcohol
outweighs any advantage which can accrue later within the life, since the abuse of alcohol as
well as its associated dependence and linked violent behaviour are generally too common among
the young age group and are usually not easily predicted.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project plan
Project collaboration
The project collaboration is generally a method which is used to plan, control as well as
coordinate and monitor distributed and the complex projects as well. While doing projects
collaboratively, it can generally allow the team to collaborate across their departmental,
corporate as well as the national boundaries and to master growing project complexities. All the
members within the project generally has an access towards all the data that is being used within
the project like messages, specific tasks as well as the documents. In this, such data is being
updated within the real time when the alterations generally occur. with having the advent of the
collaborative software’s, there are more the project teams can use effective collaboration tools
within their projects as well. While collaborating with the project team members, there are
several skills which are required in order to establish an effective project such as having effective
communication skills, problem solving skills, effective decision making skills and many more. In
addition to this, the collaborative management of project is mainly based over the effective
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principles of actively including all the project members within the planning as well as control
process and of the networking them using an effective collaboration module, communication and
the adequate information.
Having a good and skilful communication is generally an essential element within the
project management, enabling the project to progress on time and smoothly as well. It can ensure
the team members are aligned on the effective project goals as well as can understand exactly
what is being expected of them. Furthermore, it can build trust so every of the team member can
work effectively and better collaboratively from the beginning of the project till its termination.
Learning reflection
While doing the project, there is lot of issues which come across that can trouble the path in
executing the research. Through accessing various websites and go through several articles and
Journals, I effectively get to know about the chosen topic which is about notion of Alcohol
consumption, drug abuse and smoking among young adults in the UK. From various sources, I
effectively identified that young generation including teenagers are more prone towards
consuming alcohol, abusing substance and smoking as well. In addition to this, some of the
young people can consume such toxic materials forcefully under pressure of their peers. Whereas
some of them can consume it under certain circumstances such as facing depression, anxiety and
so on. In addition to this, while completing the research, I have used effective communication
skills with my other project members. It can help me to gather effective information about the
topic so that I can complete my research on time. Through having effective knowledge about the
chosen topic, it can be determined that by promoting campaigns about impacts of consuming
alcohol, substance abusing and smoking can significantly affect the body system of a human. It
is determined by the study that people consuming alcohol, drugs and smoking in an excessive
manner are generally more prone to have cardiovascular illness, cancer, obesity and many more.
It can also lead to influence the sexual and physical violence as well as can enhance the risk of
homicide and suicide as well.
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REFERENCES
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neurological perspective. Frontiers in pharmacology, 10, p.1481.
Baiden, P., Mengo, C., Boateng, G.O. and Small, E., 2019. Investigating the association between
age at first alcohol use and suicidal ideation among high school students: Evidence from
the youth risk behavior surveillance system. Journal of affective disorders, 242, pp.60-67.
Gass, J and et. al., 2021. The use and impact of self-monitoring on substance use outcomes: A
descriptive systematic review. Substance Abuse, 42(4), pp.512-526.
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