ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE

ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE –

Port Chester Businesses Support Effort to Keep Kids Off Drugs and Alcohol

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Thank you to the Port Chester Cares Community Coalition for submitting this information: A new community initiative designed to increase high school students' awareness of the negative effects of alcohol and drug use is gaining support from businesses …
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Heavy Drinking, Pot Use Tied to Teen Brain Changes

Filed under: alcohol and drug abuse

14 in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, are based on 41 teenagers with a history of habitual drinking and pot smoking, and 51 teens who reported little, if any, alcohol or drug use. At the start of the study and again 18 …
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Social workers need more training on drug and alcohol issues | Social Care …

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Social workers are not expected to be specialists in substance use in the same way alcohol and drug specialists are not expected to be social workers, but we do still need to know enough to confidently ask about substance use and its effects on our …
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From Twitter:

For those that went through Drug or Alcohol Rehab and were halfway honest, most of fellow group members suffered abuse as children – by irish13b (irish13b)

From Twitter:

RT @MichaelSkolnik: Alcohol and drug abuse are far more likely to result in violent behavior than mental illness by itself. – by BRNSGR690 (Da1)

From Twitter:

RT @MichaelSkolnik: Alcohol and drug abuse are far more likely to result in violent behavior than mental illness by itself. – by BelleFemmeNoir3 (Athena)