Posts Tagged ‘drug abuse’

Annie's Mailbox: Dealing with a husband's alcoholism
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Dear Annie : I have been married to “Bart” for 21 years. I knew he had issues with alcohol. He has a pattern of getting sober for a few years and then relapsing over and over. He is truly a wonderful guy, but…
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National Mentoring Month Promotes Community Support
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The Fighting Back Mentor Program, a youth prevention program of the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse and Santa Barbara Fighting Back Collaborative, is hoping for community engagement in January, the National Month of Mentoring.
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Alcohol Abuse College in the News

Jovan Belcher drunk at time of killing
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Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit for driving when he fatally shot his girlfriend and then killed himself in front of his head coach and general manager, an autopsy released Monday …
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Delegation seeking members for local boards
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Tri-County Commission on Alcohol & Drug Abuse Board of Directors. * Orangeburg County Social Services Board. * Orangeburg … The delegation met at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College. OCtech President Dr. Walter A. Tobin said the institution has …
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UA researcher and professor pushes marijuana study to benefit veterans with …
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Question by eros_gary: What is addiction? and where can you get help in California?

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People who are addicted cannot control their need for alcohol or other drugs, even in the face of negative health, social or legal consequences.
The illness becomes harder to treat and the related health problems, such as organ disease, become worse.
Addiction is a chronic, but treatable, brain disorder. People who are addicted cannot control their need for alcohol or other drugs, even in the face of negative health, social or legal consequences. This lack of control is the result of alcohol- or drug-induced changes in the brain. Those changes, in turn, cause behavior changes.

Diabetes And Alcohol Abuse in the News

GUEST OPINION: The wide-ranging local impacts of education
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Rates of obesity, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disease decrease. Rates of unhealthy behaviors such as smoking and alcohol and drug abuse decrease while rates of healthy habits such as exercise increase. Voter turnout …
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Marine Corps attacks alcohol abuse
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In September, a Pentagon-sponsored study by the Institute of Medicine declared that abuse of alcohol and other drugs in the military was a “public health crisis” and “detrimental to force readiness and psychological fitness.” An alarming 47 percent of …
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National Institute On Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism in the News

NIH Head Rejects Proposed NIDA, NIAAA Merger
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“[T]he National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) will retain their institutional identities, while strengthening their ongoing efforts to work more closely with each other and with …
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Weeding out distress
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According to the National Crimes Records Bureau, 125,017 people committed suicide in 2008 and at least 1,000 farmers ended their lives every year in the Vidarbha region since 2001 though several experts dispute the figure for being low than the actual …
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Gene Variant Linked to Active Personality Traits Also Linked to Human Longevity
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Maryland lawmaker claims marriage votes spurred alcohol abuse – LGBTQ Nation
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Maryland lawmaker claims marriage votes spurred alcohol abuse LGBTQ Nation A Maryland lawmaker told a local newspaper last week that legislators who voted for the state's same-sex marriage bill contributed to his alcohol abuse. Delegate Don Dwyer (R-Anne Arundel County) told the Maryland Gazette in an interview the newspaper … and more »

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Scornaienchi re-eclected chairwoman of Howard Co. Alcohol and Drug Abuse … – Daily Record (subscription)
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Scornaienchi re-eclected chairwoman of Howard Co. Alcohol and Drug Abuse … Daily Record (subscription) Joan Webb Scornaienchi, executive director of HC DrugFree, has been re-elected to a third term as the chair of the Howard County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Advisory Board, which reviews services and the need for services relating to alcohol and drug abuse …