Alcoholism: The Effect to the Fourth Year Students’ of

Florentina Cana Recto Memorial National High School,

School Year 2009-2010.

A RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Submitted to:
CARMEN P. BENARES, Ph.D.

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement in

METHODS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Submitted by:
RUSSEL C. GARCIA
MEd Natural Science

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
 Alcoholism is a chronic disease that makes your body dependent on alcohol.
You may be obsessed with alcohol and unable to control how much you drink, even
though your drinking is causing serious problems with your relationships, health,
work and finances.

The term alcoholism or chronic alcoholism is applied to behavioral disorder

characterized by an excessive used of alcohol, and the prolonged used of this will
led to physical and mental health disorder.

It's possible to have a problem with alcohol, but not display all the
characteristics of alcoholism. This is known as "alcohol abuse," which means you
engage in excessive drinking that causes health or social problems, but you aren't
dependent on alcohol and haven't fully lost control over the use of alcohol.

Although many people assume otherwise, alcoholism is a treatable disease.

Medications, counseling and self-help groups are among the therapies that can
provide ongoing support to help you recover from alcoholism.

Florentina Caña Recto Memorial National High School, formerly known as

Linaon Barangay High School, is a public high school situated along Linaon,
Cauayan, Negros Occidental. It was established in 1975. The school has an area of
one hectare, has 6-school buildings and one administrative building which houses
the principal’s office. Trees and greens can be found around the school area and
there is a playground and athletics’ track where physical activities are being held.

With this in mind, the researcher decided to make a study on the effect of
alcoholism to the fourth year fourth year students.

The researcher would like to find out what would be the possible effects of
alcoholism to the fourth year students. The researcher observed that more students
really engage of drinking alcoholic beverages. However, no statistical study has
been actually done to find out what really the effects of alcolism to them.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
 This study seeks to determine the effects of alcoholism to the fourth year
students of Florentina Caña Recto Memorial National Hisg School, school year 2009
– 2010.

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

Specifically, this study aims to meet the following objectives:

1. To determine effect alcoholism in the performance of fourth year students

in their daily quizzes.

2. To determine effect alcoholism in the performance of fourth year students

in their periodical examination.

SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

This study focuses on the effect of alcoholism to the fourth year students of
Florentina Cana Recto Memorial Natioanl High School in their performance in daily
quizzes and the periodical examination.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study will focus to the following:

The administrators. This study may serve as a guide for implementing the
rules and regulation of the school so as to produce graduates who will be best
prepared to face the challenge of whatever are ahead of them.

The teachers. This study may serve as their guide in classroom

management and teaching strategies to come up the best result.
 The students. The direct benificiaries of the study and to inspire the
students to create a good future.

DEFINATION OF TERMS

In order to facilitate better understanding regarding this study, the following

key terms are difined both conceptully and operationally.

Alcoholism. In this study, this refers to the individual who are engage in
drinking intoxicated beverages.

Effects. A direct result of an individual who are actually taken the intoxicated
beverages.

CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

 The term alcoholism was first used by a Swedish professor of medicine,
Magnus Huss (1807-90), to mean poisoning by alcohol. Huss distinguished between
two types of alcoholism. Acute alcoholism was a result of the temporary effects of
alcohol taken within a short period of time, drunkenness and intoxication; chronic
alcoholism was a pathological condition caused by the habitual use of alcoholic
beverages in poisonous amounts over a long period of time. Using case studies to
illustrate the condition of chronic alcoholism, Huss provided the first systematic
description of the physical damage caused by excessive drinking. This first use of
the term alcoholismin 1852 emerged from a combination of specific historical
circumstances within which changes in perceptions of excessive alcohol
consumption were taking place. (http://www.answers.com)

Alcoholism is a chronic, progressive, and often fatal disease. It is a primary

disorder and not a symptom of other diseases or emotional problems. The
chemistry of alcohol allows it to affect nearly every type of cell in the body,
including those in the central nervous system. After prolonged exposure to alcohol,
the brain becomes dependent on it. The severity of this disease is influenced by
factors such as genetics, psychology, culture, and response to physical pain.
(http://www.about.com)

Prior to the nineteenth century, symptoms and problems related to habitual

drunkenness, or excessive alcohol use, were known and recorded, but habitual
drunkards were seen as morally weak or criminal, rather than suffering from an
illness or a disease. Public concern revolved around drunkards' moral attitudes and
social behaviours, which were regarded as licentious, sinful, or criminal, punishable
by a period in the stocks, whipping, or fines or by the eternal damnation preached
in fiery sermons. On the whole, however, the dominant social response to
drunkenness was tolerance and social disapproval; heavy drinking was not, in itself,
regarded as a problem. The emergence of a new understanding of habitual
drunkenness (or inebriety) as a disease was led by medical and psychiatric
practitioners at the beginning of the nineteenth century, most notably by Benjamin
Rush (1745-1813) in America and Thomas Trotter (1760-1832) in Scotland.
According to some historians, it was Rush who provided the first clearly developed
modern conception of alcohol addiction. This included the idea of gradual and
progressive addiction; bouts of drunkenness characterized by an inability to refrain
from alcohol; the description of the condition as a disease; and total abstinence as
the cure. For the first time, treatment became a possible option in responding to the
harm associated with habitual drunkenness. Throughout the nineteenth century
efforts were made to provide more scientific descriptions of the disease and its
cure, leading, in 1901, to the use of the term ‘alcohol addiction’ to describe
the inability to give up harmful drinking. (http://www.answers.com)

During the first half of the twentieth century interest in alcoholism and the
alcoholic waned. Prohibition in America and changing social conditions and
consumption patterns in Britain drew attention towards control of the substance and
away from the disease and its treatment. But with the repeal of prohibition in
America, any attempt to address problems associated with drinking had to be
concerned with the behaviour of individuals rather than with the consumption
patterns of the nation or the nature of the substance itself. In post-prohibition
America and, later, in post war Britain, the freedom of the majority to drink as they
pleased was paramount. The nineteenth century temperance approach, which had
inveighed against the dangers of alcohol itself, was now rejected as moralistic and
unscientific and the focus of attention was, once again, on the disease of
alcoholism. (http://www.answers.com)