Alcohol and Drug Addiction Educational PSA Video
Alcohol and Drug Addiction Educational PSA Video – Anti-Alcohol Video PSA. Public domain public service announcement. 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. 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. Alcoholism is a disease. It is often diagnosed more through behaviors and adverse effects on functioning than by specific medical symptoms. Only 2 of the diagnostic criteria are physiological (those are tolerance changes and withdrawal symptoms). Alcohol abuse and alcoholism are associated with a broad range of medical, psychiatric, social, legal, occupational, economic, and family problems. For example, parental alcoholism underlies many family problems such as divorce, spouse abuse, child abuse and neglect, welfare dependence, and criminal behaviors, according to government sources.
Community drug, alcohol awareness event planned
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A local sports coach is calling for community support to help realize a Drug and Alcohol Awareness Day centered around substance abuse awareness, recovery alternatives and sober fun for local youth. “We, as a community, have the chance to show our …
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BCL Mine clamps down on alcohol, drug abuse
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The mine held a wellness walk over the weekend to kickstart the campaign. According to a statement from the company, the campaign seeks to mitigate the negative impacts of alcohol and drug abuse on production, including outside the workplace – violence …
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Youth Center to Offer Substance Abuse Training
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The purpose is to provide a “greater, more realistic awareness of the vast and concealed substance abuse problem” that is rampant among the generation of our youth today. From lead pencils to ingredients found in your kitchen to a soda bottle and …
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