Alcohol Treatment and Rehab:
Articles on Alcohol Treatment, Alcohol Abuse, Signs and Symptoms of Alcoholism.
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Jun 27th, 2009
Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has launched an integrated, co-ordinated action plan to prevent, reduce and address young people’s drinking.
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Jun 26th, 2009
Frequent binge drinking may dramatically increase the risk of hemorrhagic stroke.
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Jun 22nd, 2009
SAMHSA is issuing its latest Treatment Episode Data Set report on Discharges from Substance Treatment Services, which provides an important array of information about the approximately 1.5 million treatment discharges occurring at reporting state-licensed treatment facilities across the country.
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Jun 20th, 2009
Factors that affect suicide rates include drug addiction and alcohol abuse. Studies also shows that being male, or part of a minority group, affects the incidence of suicide. New data from the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report shows that interventional programs should focus on alcohol treatment and rehabilitation to reduce the risk of suicide among minorities especially.
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Jun 19th, 2009
Alcohol dependence or abuse among fathers living with adolescents (youths aged 12 to 17) may increase the risk of alcohol or illicit substance use among their children according to a new national study.
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Jun 15th, 2009
Ralph Hingson, Sc.D., M.P.H., and colleagues have published the results of their research which shows that binge drinking, drunk driving, and alcohol-related deaths increased among college students over the first half of the decade. The report is one of 14 published in a special supplement to the July issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. The supplement focuses on college drinking problems.
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Jun 15th, 2009
Alcohol-related deaths among U.S. college students rose from 1,440 deaths in 1998 to 1,825 in 2005, along with increases in heavy drinking and drunk driving.
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Jun 13th, 2009
The Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety today published a Statistical Bulletin presenting key findings from the second Drug Prevalence Survey. This statistical publication presents an analysis of polydrug use (the use of more than one substance) within the month prior to the survey.
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Jun 9th, 2009
A report Alcohol and Older People: A Review of issues and responses by researchers investigating the implications for care provision for older people with alcohol problems, has identified that health care practitioners and alcohol services are likely to need to move up a gear to cope with a predicted increase in resources needed.
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Jun 5th, 2009
A new report providing state-by-state analyses of substance abuse and mental illness patterns reveals that there are wide variations in the levels of problems like illicit drug use found among the states, but that every state suffers from these problems.