Assignment 1: LASA 2—Prevention Strategies Treatment programs cannot always be 100% effective, and many substance abusers relapse into drug abuse after days, months, or even years of sobriety. With the marginal success of treatment programs, it is even more important that people never start using drugs. As such, prevention strategies are of utmost importance. Review the case study. Using your module readings and the Argosy University online library resources, research methods of increasing awareness about substance abuse and dependence. Develop a PowerPoint presentation including the following: Identify and describe two prevention strategies. Explain ways of determining whether loved ones have a problem with drugs using the current DSM characteristics of substance use disorders. Address the effectiveness of current treatment strategies in the United States. Explain polypharmacology Address the possible treatment options and treatment difficulties for someone who is dependent on two substances. Develop an 8–10-slide presentation (complete with speakers notes) in PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Be sure to include a title slide and a list of references. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.ppt. By Monday, November 2, 2015, deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox. Assignment 1 Grading Criteria Maximum Points Identified and described 2 prevention strategies 60 Explained ways of determining whether loved ones have a problem with drugs using the current DSM characteristics of substance use disorders 52 Address the effectiveness of current treatment strategies in the United States 56 Explained polypharmacology 20 Addressed the possible treatment options and treatment difficulties for someone who has dependence on two substances 48 Style (8 points): Tone, audience, and word choice Organization (16 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion Usage and Mechanics (16 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure APA Elements (24 points): Attribution, paraphrasing, quotation 64 Total: 300 Case Study Part I Aaliyah is a 25-year-old, single, Caucasian woman, who lives in an apartment with a friend. Aaliyah moved out of her parents’ house at 18, after completing high school, to remove herself from her father’s alcohol use. Aaliyah smokes cigarettes and drinks alcohol occasionally. Aaliyah is dissatisfied with her current job. She works full time as an administrative assistant at a contracting company, but she is ready for a career change. Aaliyah has decided to return to school to pursue a degree in criminal justice. She will be working and taking classes at the same time, fitting her school schedule around her work schedule. During her first session of school, Aaliyah notices that she is having difficulty staying awake to complete her schoolwork at night after a full workday. Aaliyah does not want her grades to fall, as her education is very important t ...

1. Assignment 1: LASA 2—Prevention Strategies
Treatment programs cannot always be 100% effective, and many
substance abusers relapse into drug abuse after days, months, or
even years of sobriety. With the marginal success of treatment
programs, it is even more important that people never start
using drugs. As such, prevention strategies are of utmost
importance.
Review the case study. Using your module readings and the
Argosy University online library resources, research methods of
increasing awareness about substance abuse and dependence.
Develop a PowerPoint presentation including the following:
Identify and describe two prevention strategies.
Explain ways of determining whether loved ones have a
problem with drugs using the current DSM characteristics of
substance use disorders.
Address the effectiveness of current treatment strategies in the
United States.
Explain polypharmacology
Address the possible treatment options and treatment
difficulties for someone who is dependent on two substances.
Develop an 8–10-slide presentation (complete with speakers
notes) in PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation
of sources. Be sure to include a title slide and a list of
references. Use the following file naming convention:
LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.ppt. By Monday, November 2,
2015, deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 1
Dropbox.
Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Identified and described 2 prevention strategies
60
Explained ways of determining whether loved ones have a
problem with drugs using the current DSM characteristics of
substance use disorders

2. 52
Address the effectiveness of current treatment strategies in the
United States
56
Explained polypharmacology
20
Addressed the possible treatment options and treatment
difficulties for someone who has dependence on two substances
48
Style (8 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization (16 points): Introduction, transitions, and
conclusion
Usage and Mechanics (16 points): Grammar, spelling, and
sentence structure
APA Elements (24 points): Attribution, paraphrasing, quotation
64
Total:
300
Case Study Part I
Aaliyah is a 25-year-old, single, Caucasian woman, who lives in
an apartment with a friend. Aaliyah moved out of her parents’
house at 18, after completing high school, to remove herself
from her father’s alcohol use. Aaliyah smokes cigarettes and
drinks alcohol occasionally.
Aaliyah is dissatisfied with her current job. She works full time
as an administrative assistant at a contracting company, but she
is ready for a career change. Aaliyah has decided to return to
school to pursue a degree in criminal justice. She will be
working and taking classes at the same time, fitting her school
schedule around her work schedule.

3. During her first session of school, Aaliyah notices that she is
having difficulty staying awake to complete her schoolwork at
night after a full workday. Aaliyah does not want her grades to
fall, as her education is very important to her. However, she
cannot afford to reduce her work hours. Her roommate makes
Aaliyah coffee at night to help her stay awake. Soon, Aaliyah is
drinking three or more cups of coffee a night to help her stay
awake to complete her schoolwork.
Case Study Part II
Aaliyah continues to struggle with balancing her work hours
and her schoolwork. She has been drinking coffee to help her
stay awake, but it is no longer working. She has an exam
coming up and needs to stay up to study.
Aaliyah decides to take an amphetamine to stay awake to study
for the exam. She promises herself that she will only take it this
one time for the exam. The drug allows her to stay awake and
alert while she is studying for the exam. She also feels that she
is learning the material better as a result of the amphetamine.
When the grades are in, Aaliyah receives an A on her work.
As the semester continues, Aaliyah turns to amphetamines more
and more often to help her stay awake to complete her
schoolwork. Soon, Aaliyah finds that one pill no longer keeps
her awake as long as she needs.
She starts taking more than one pill at a time. She knows that
taking amphetamines so often is not good for her health, and
she finds she experiences an increase in headaches when she
takes them, but she continues to take them because they are
helping her be successful in school and at work.
Case Study Part III
Aaliyah had been taking amphetamines regularly for two months
and had been experiencing the physiological, psychological, and
toxic effects of chronic amphetamine use. She had started
drinking alcohol to help her sleep at night.
One morning she was driving to work and feeling the effects of
a hangover from the night before. She was not concentrating on
the road, and ran into the back of a car that had stopped in front

4. of her. Luckily, none of the people involved in the accident was
seriously injured.Page 2 of 2 Introduction to Addictions and
Addictive Behavior This incident served as a “wake up call” for
Aaliyah, and she decided to get help for her problems. However,
because she is now using both amphetamines and alcohol, she is
not sure what treatment program to enter.
Aaliyah would like to help other people avoid the troubles
caused by drugs. She would like to give a presentation at her
college to discuss her experiences and give students several
prevention options, as well as ways to tell if their friends or
loved ones have a drug problem.
Tablets and Children Development 1
Tablets and Children Development
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5. Introduction
Technology is a significant component for human development
in the 21th century. With the aid of technology, our next
generations would develop learning skills easier, faster, and
more effective. Tablets and smartphones are the most popular
sources of technology nowadays. Easy to use, attractive, and
convenient are the key features that make tablets the most
useful technology for children development. However, there are
negativities within the use of tablets. The main goal of this
paper is to prove to the readers the benefits as well as the
negative effects of tablets on future generations. This is seen
through a lack of functions, security risk to users, social
problems, and potential cause of physical and mental diseases.
Background
Tablets have been the most popular gadgets within our society
in the first half of 2010s. However, many tablets have come out
way before that time period but made no remarkable success.
According to Huffington Post, in the first decade of 21st
century, some of the first tablets were the Compaq Tablet
(2001), Microsoft Smart Display (2002), Motion Computing
LS800 (2005), Axiotron ModBook (2007), etc. (Smith, 2010).
Only when the iPads of Apple Inc. came out in 2010; tablet was
a highlight within technology users. A tablet is a portable
computer which has touch screen display, battery, and Wi-Fi
cellular when it first came out. For the recent generation, a
trendy, up-to-date tablet like the new iPad Pro has 4G cellular,
back and front cameras, fingerprint passcode etc. Even though
tablets came out half a decade before 2010. IPads where truly
those which represent the definition of tablets.
Potential Benefit
Portable is the most important aspect of why people use tablets.
With the function of a computer and the size of a book, tablets
are easy to carry around. People can quickly use internet, read
books, and play games, etc. everywhere, any time they want
with just a few tabs on the screen. Tablets can afford all of the
basic functions of a computer such as calendar, email, internet,

6. camera, music, photo, etc. Schools across America have been
using tablets for their curriculum purposes. As stated in
Negroponte’s research paper, children can learn a great deal by
themselves and tablets can help kids to learn reading,
calculating, painting, etc. through lively applications (2012).
They enhance the ability of children to learn, problem solve,
and convey their ideas (Couse, 2010). From kindergartens to
high schools, tablets are proved to be helpful for students to
develop their learning skills. According to Leslie Couse in her
research paper, “children who use computers have been found to
show greater gains in intelligence, structural, knowledge,
problem solving, and language skills compared with those who
do not use technology in their learning” (Couse, 2010).
Ethical Issues
There are some infamous issues about tablets that still exist.
Glitches, low battery life, and most importantly, price. While
using a tablet, users get used to the fact that the apps would
occasionally crashing, slowly, or even restarting by itself. Users
would normally lose the data they have without anyway to
retrieve it back. Some of the “well rated” apps for education
have limited to no instructions for teachers and students.
Teachers and students sometime got into difficulties while using
tablets as “they encountered glitches associated with learning
this new technology” (Couse, 2010). When it is hard to
understand, the class would waste time to solve the
inconvenient problems when glitches on apps occur.
Low battery life is another significant issues where tablets only
last a couple of hours which cause difficulties among users.
Imagine a student who is about to present his project on his
iPad but the tablet runs out of battery, what would he do? Are
tablets considered as computers? Many have asked that question
because a computer should be multitasked. A tablet some time
cannot replace many functions of a computer. Tablet apps still
cannot give the complex, sophisticate qualities that exist on PCs
programs. For examples are Adobe Photoshop, MAGIX Music
Maker, iZOTOPE, and many others software are necessary to

7. many people’ life but are not compatible on table.
Price is another factor that prove tablets are not taking over the
jobs of computers yet. People are totally wrong with the fact
that buying a tablet would save more money due to their size.
For example, an iPad would cost $750 to $950 while a computer
only cost $400 to $500, and with more functions. According to
Rankothge in his research paper, poor families, and
communities, “will hardly afford the purchase and the
maintenance of these [tablets] devices” (2012).
Working with tablets would limit and reduce the traditional
learning methods such as group discussions, team works, etc.
Teachers also need to spend lots of effort to select suitable,
helpful apps for the lectures. However, according to Leslie
Couse’s research paper, until the end of the school day, “it was
almost impossible to determine accurately the depth of actual
learning that was occurring” (2010).
Security Concerns
With the advance of technology, online data storage is a place
people can keep their digital properties on the internet.
However, these properties might be easily hacked by individuals
with negative intentions. The most notorious example about
online data storage hacking was in 2014 when thousand private
pictures of Hollywood celebrities were hacked from their iCloud
accounts and published online.
“Parental control is considered important for children
technology usage” (Tahir, 2015). Cyberspace is a place with full
of risks and problems for kids. Cyberbullying, sexting,
blackmailing, identity thefts are the few examples of how
dangerous the internet is. Violent games are easy to download
which might develop aggressive, hostile behaviors to kids.
Tablets might not be a safe place for children since there are
many dark features on the internet such as adult contents,
hateful speech, banned videos, etc.
Social Problems
Tablets are addictive to children. Aside from useful apps, there
are others that might not be profitable, but also harmful as well.

8. They might cause both physically and mentally diseases to
children from myopic, drowsiness, to some serious ones such as
autism, etc. Tablets also cause great “impact on head and neck
posture than conventional desktop and laptop PCs” (Bertolucci,
2012). When tablets apply to the curriculum, teachers find it
hard to manage their classes since they cannot control what kids
do on the screens of their tablets. According to Tony Bradley,
all parents have to do is to watch over what children do on
tablets to “guard against inappropriate behavior and otherwise
protect kids” (Bradley, 2011). There are recent accidents caused
by overheated tablets which sometime catch them on fire. By
spending excessive amount of time on tablets, it would “adverse
effects on children’s health and social skills by isolating
children from other things (e.g. physical activity and social life)
around them which as well are important for their development
and growth” (Tahir, 2015).
Further Required Research
There are not a certain rules or laws about how parents should
provide tablets to their children. Manufacturers, parents and
“app developers could also benefit from working alongside
teachers to learn more about suitable content and features to
better support and extend student learning” (Fallon, 2014).
Because teachers and parents do not always know what’s out
there in the cyberspace. The later generation of tablets should
have programs that can prevent any negativities and
inconvenient for children development. “Therefore future
research should focus on other aspects also such as the role of
educational apps in schools, involving teachers and the role of
mobile technology in teaching” (Tahir, 2015).
Conclusion
Tablets are extremely useful for students’ development with
active, lively apps. They make the process of receiving
knowledge and information faster and more convenient. With
multiple useful applications, tablets can “highlight the
importance of the children’s active use of technology in making
decisions, technology resources in writing, drawing, and logical

9. thinking programs to solve problems and illustrate ideas (Couse,
2010). However, they have not proven to be physically
benefited for kids. Tablets are addictive to children and they
might cause multiple illnesses. Tables should be placed under
more strict controls and regulations before they are available for
children.
References
Bertolucci, J. (2012). 8 Things Tablets Still Can’t Do.
InformationWeek. Retrieved from
http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-devices/8-
things-tablets-still-cant-do/d/d-id/1103481?page_number=4
8 different factors provided by InformationWeek shows
that tablets still cannot replace the work of PCs. Tablets still
lacked of some functions from external storage slot, low data
usage, etc.
Bradley, T. (2011). What Are Your Kids Doing Online?. PC
World, 29(6), 33-34.
http://mutex.gmu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/log
in.aspx?direct=true&db=iih&AN=60574000&site=ehost-live
A magazine article provides parents some methods about
controlling kid online activities by parental control programs.
The article also mentions about cyberbullying, sexting, and
other assaults online that parents need to be aware off.
Couse, L. J., & Chen, D. W. (2010). A Tablet Computer for
Young Children? Exploring Its Viability for Early Childhood
Education. Journal Of Research On Technology In
Education(International Society For Technology In Education),
43(1), 75-98. Retrieved from
http://mutex.gmu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/log

10. in.aspx?direct=true&db=iih&AN=53500538&site=ehost-live
A study about how tablets positively affect children
learning skills from age three to six. The study shows kids have
more interest and easy to engage with the subject.
Falloon, G. (2014). What's going on behind the screens?.
Journal Of Computer Assisted Learning, 30(4), 318-336.
doi:10.1111/jcal.12044 Retrieved from
http://mutex.gmu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/log
in.aspx?direct=true&db=iih&AN=97233167&site=ehost-
live&scope=site
This is a journal about the use of tablets applications by
students. The benefits of tablets on children learning outcomes
are undeniable. However, the apps developers need to cooperate
with teachers to come up with better products for children.
Goldman, D (2015, July 31). Nvidia Shield tablet recalled,
because it can catch on fire. CNNMoney. Retrieved from
http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/31/technology/nvidia-shield-
tablet-fire/
An article of CNN Money about Nvidia recall 88,000 of its
new products since there are reported cases of tablets
automatically catch on fire.
Negroponte, N. (2012). Another Way to Think about Learning.
MIT Technology Review, 37. Retrieved from
http://mutex.gmu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/log
in.aspx?direct=true&db=asf&AN=84270917&site=ehost-
live&scope=site
A researcher gave poor, non-educated kids in Ethiopia
tablets to see if they can use them without instructions or not.
Surprisingly, the kids could play games and used apps within
just 2 weeks of using tablets. This experiment proved a
potential future use of tablets in education.
Smith, Catherine. (2010, June 15). History Of Tablet PCs
(PHOTOS): A Pictorial Timeline Of Tablets, From RAND To
The iPad. Huffington post. Retrieved from
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/15/history-tablet-pc-
photos_n_538806.html

11. A Huffington Post article shows a list of 17 tablets from
the RAND Tablet (1964) to Apple iPad (2010).
Tahir, Rabail. Mobile technology in children education:
Analyzing parents' attitude towards mobile technology for
children. Science and Information Conference (SAI), 2015. 410
– 420. Retrieved from
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/15/history-tablet-pc-
photos_n_538806.html
The research provide an inside perspective of parents,
educators, and policy makers about how tablets affect children
in general. Parents are concern with the contents on the internet
since they cannot control what their kids do online all the time.
Policy makers and tablet developers should work together to
come up with a better solution for future tablets.
Rankothge, W.H., & Sendanayake, S.V., Sudarshana R.G.P.
Technology assisted tool for learning skills development in
early childhood. Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions
(ICTer), 2012 International Conference 2014. 165 – 168.
Retrieved from
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.mutex.gmu.edu/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&
arnumber=6423031
Early childhood learning could be assisted by technology
especially computer tablets. Kids can learn writing and speaking
skills through the help of tablets before entering kindergartens
with the help of technology.
Introduction To Computing
Lab #8

12. Instructor: Kavya Venkatesh
IT 104, Section: 203
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Objectives
HTML5 Case Study I
HTML5 (‘Title’ webpage)
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Objectives – HTML5 Case Study I
Create basic HTML 5 document using Notepad.Create header
section containing title tag and internal CSS.Create body
elements.Create paragraphs and line break.Present text in
different font, size, and color.Create nested tags.Create ordered,
unordered and definition lists.Create headers in a Web
page.View web pages in a browser.Validate Web pages using a
Validator tool.
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13. XHTML Case Study 1-index.html
HTML5 Case Study I
Case study document available on Blackboard under the
Assignment/Exercises section.
Complete the entire HTML5 Case Study I.
Save HTML file as: index.html
This unique HTML file must be saved exactly as index.html
Submit the HTML file index.html on Blackboard.
Due Date: 11/02/2015 11:59 pm
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Homework- “Title” webpage
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HTML5 (‘Title’ webpage)Create a webpage and save it as
titlepage.html.Include title of your research paper project, your
name, date, and GMU Honor Code Statement from your research
paper on titlepage.html. Use CSS for controlling fonts and sizes
of GMU Honor Code statement. For this, you will use font-
family: Verdana and font-size: small. Upload your webpage
using SSH on Mason cluster account.
HTML5 (‘Title’ webpage) Grading Criteria sheet available on
Blackboard.
Save HTML file as: title.html
Submit HTML file title.html on Blackboard.
Due Date:11/02/2015 11:59 pm

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ITU Support Center
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service.cfm?customel_dataPageID_4609=6129
Star Lab
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service.cfm?customel_dataPageID_4609=5693l
Download SSH Secure Shell (Windows)
http://itservices.gmu.edu/downloads/index.cfm
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