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.

Experts to Address the Issue of Suicide and Substance Abuse

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A growing body of evidence suggests that alcohol and drug abuse are second only to depression and other mood disorders when it comes to risk factors for suicide. In one study, for example, alcohol and drug abuse disorders were associated with a … “We …
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RIVERSIDE COUNTY: Substance abuse prevention program receives recognition

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The Riverside County Department of Mental Health is announcing that one of its innovative substance abuse prevention programs has been recognized by the National Association of State Alcohol/Drug Abuse Directors for its pioneering work in preventing …
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Former Cowboys great to share drug addiction struggles

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FormerDallas CowboyschampionThomas “Hollywood” Hendersonwill be the keynote speaker at Tuesday's Power of Prevention Breakfast benefitingTheCouncil on Alcohol & Drug Abuse. Henderson will share his struggles to overcome alcohol and drug …
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