Alcohol Awareness Month – Highlights Issue of Underage Drinking
Alcohol Awareness Month – highlights issue of underage drinking
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Each April since 1987, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD) sponsors NCADD Alcohol Awareness Month to increase public awareness and understanding, reduce stigma and encourage local communities to focus on alcoholism and alcohol-related issues. This April, NCADD highlights the important public health issue of underage drinking, a problem with devastating individual …
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Fort Hood shooting raises questions over high suicide rate among veterans
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Statistics on mental illness, alcoholism and suicide in US military were damning before and are proving hard to explain The statistics for the US military on mental illness, alcoholism and suicide were already damning before the Fort Hood shooting , with more military personnel killed on home ground than in combat. No one yet knows why the suspect Ivan Lopez carried out the shooting spree at …
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Aboriginal alcoholism worsening: inquiry
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The chairwoman of a federal inquiry into the harmful use of alcohol by indigenous communities says the problem is getting worse.
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CADA Launches new “Committed” Campaign, encouraging teens to be substance free.
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The Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse has launched a new student led campaign supporting teens committed to a healthy lifestyle by staying alcohol and drug free.
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