Use the resources on this page to help you find credible sources to support your paper.

This assignment requires you to write a 3–5-page paper and analyze four types of abuse in domestic violence situations correlated to one substance of abuse and its effect on domestic violence.

Choose one drug of abuse from the following list:

• Alcohol
• Cannabis (Marijuana/Pot/Weed)
• Central Nervous System Depressants (Benzos)
• Cocaine (Coke/Crack)
• GHB
• Hallucinogens
• Heroin
• Inhalants
• Ketamine
• LSD (Acid)
• MDMA (Ecstasy/Molly)
• Methamphetamine (Crystal/Meth)
• PCP (Angel Dust)
• Prescription Opioids (Oxy/Percs)
• Prescription Stimulants (Speed)
• Rohypnol ® (Flunitrazepam/Roofies)
• Steroids (Anabolic)
• Synthetic Cathinones (Bath Salts/Flakka)

Type the name of your chosen substance and add any of the following keyword suggestions:

• "domestic violence"
• "family abuse"
•  "intimate partner violence"
• financial strain
• family relationship strain

Try searching with the quotation marks; they tell the database to look for the words together and narrow the search results. For example:

• steroids "domestic violence"
• opioids "family abuse"
• alcohol "intimate partner violence"

These searches can by done on the Find page of this guide and in the suggested database below.

Search within the DSM-Library database to locate information about mental health disorders. When searching in the DSM Library, select the Table of Contents:

Then select Section II:

Then, select the chapter about Substance Abuse Disorders: