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.
Collegium leaves RI, returns to its Mass. roots
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Collegium's lead product has been designated Fast Track Status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration because of prescription drug abuse. In September 2011 it received a nod from the FDA to move the tamper-resistant product to Phase 3 clinical trial …
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A life redeemed
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His parents were declared unfit to raise him and his two siblings due to drug abuse when he was 11 months old. Brown-Ward … Talmage paid out of pocket to help with the application and enrollment fees to make sure his brother was able to go to college.
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Habit Formation and the Rat Race
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The ability to break habits in mice may seem like the nexus of a “cure” for addictive behaviors, but it is unclear how inhibiting the IL cortex will affect humans, whose prefrontal cortex is considerably more complex. It is not absurd to imagine a …
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