Substance Abuse

If you are interested in the effects of smoking, alcohol or drugs on a patient’s health then maybe substance abuse is the way to go! This is a very popular topic and with a bit of guidance you could come up with the perfect topic to shape your dissertation:

Example substance abuse dissertation topic 1:

Follow the smoking ban: Learning the lessons with regards to alcohol consumption

After decades of campaigning health care professionals have finally succeeded in getting cigarette advertising banned and packets removed from ready display within shops. Given the health concerns relating to alcohol and how they can be seen to mirror those relating to tobacco, this dissertation asks whether the time has come for a similar approach to be adopted to alcohol: no advertisement and no products in ready view of consumers. Set within the context of suggested minimum alcohol unit prices this dissertation is at the cutting edge of health preventative measures within the UK and offers an array of primary data collection opportunities.

Suggested initial topic reading:

• Anderson, P. (2009) ‘Is it time to ban alcohol advertising?’ Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians, Vol. 9(2) , pp. 121-124.
• Anderson, P., Chisholm, D. and Fuhr, D.C. (2009) ‘Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of policies and programmes to reduce the harm caused by alcohol’, The Lancet, Vol. 373(9682), pp. 2234-2246.
• Nicholson, M. and Hoye, R. (2009) ‘Reducing adolescents’ exposure to alcohol advertising and promotion during televised sports’, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 301(14), pp. 1479-1482.