Alcohol Awareness Month
National Alcohol Screening Day
Description: National Alcohol Screening Day (NASD), on April 9th, 2009, is a key annual event during Alcohol Awareness Month. The focus this year is on college students.
Addressing Delirium Tremens
Description: DTs are a medical emergency. Alcohol dependence is a serious disease that affects the mind and body. Contact emergency medical assistance if someone is suffering DTs.
Alcohol and the Human Body
Description: To understand alcohol abuse and dependence, it helps to know what happens when a person drinks alcohol. The answer may be to go to the basic effects alcohol has on the human body.
Alcohol Poisoning
Description: Somewhere between social drinking and alcohol dependence lies alcohol poisoning. It occurs at
times of high stress or celebration with binge drinkers and alcohol abusers.
Defining Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Description: The terms “alcoholism” or “alcoholic” commonly describe people who drink too much at inappropriate times. There are specific definitions for alcoholism and alcohol abuse.
Familial Alcoholism
Description: There is evidence that family history plays a part in alcohol abuse and dependence. Results point at both genetic and environmental influences in familial drinking habits.
College Alcohol Facts
Description: Alcohol releases a person from inhibitions. Studies have concluded that alcohol has a negative effect on scholastic achievement, and increases crime on college campuses.
College Alcohol and Sexual Assault
Description: When inhibitions fade due to alcohol consumption in college, sexual assault incidents increase. Studies prove this, and the evidence is clear that this is a true statement.
College Alcohol Treatment
Description: Alcohol detox and treatment for college students could solve many crime and low performance problems at post-secondary institutions, but only if needed treatment is sought.
College Alcohol Abuse Reduction
Description: A recent study at Ohio State University shows evidence that a student who drinks heavily throughout college might carry that pattern into adulthood.
Native American Years of Potential Life Lost
Description: Looking at the years of potential life lost to alcohol paints an emotionally painful picture compared to simple crime and death statistics when it comes to Native Americans.
A Healing Poem
Description: The loss of a loved one due to alcoholism or drug addiction stirs emotions in family members. The release of emotion through creativity heals, and helps the rest of us to relate.
Native American FASD
Description: Native American traditions and ceremonies, including family members, and parenting classes are all a part of alcohol and drug treatment at Tarzana Treatment Centers.
Adolescent Alcohol Abuse and Brain Development
Description: Behavior patterns and learning can suffer permanent negative effects. This offers a new sense of urgency in seeking adolescent alcohol treatment for teen alcohol abuse.
The Urgency of Teen Alcohol Treatment
Description: Adolescent alcohol education should be considered for teens that occasionally binge drink. Outpatient and residential adolescent alcohol treatment can help as well.
Why Some Adolescents Drink
Description: This section helps parents of teens identify signs of adolescent alcohol abuse and discuss treatment if necessary. Parents of young children may find ways to prevent problems.
Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Abuse
Description: With all that is known about alcohol’s effects on adolescent brain development, there needs to be more attention paid to teen alcohol abuse.
Family Alcoholism and Adolescents
Description: When children grow up in a household with alcoholism or addiction, they are at higher risk of abusing alcohol or drugs in adolescence.
Medication Assisted Alcohol Treatment
Description: Recovery from alcoholism is not easy. For chronic relapse there is Medication Assisted Treatment. Vivitrol is offered as part of treatment at Tarzana Treatment Centers.
Alcohol and Womens Health
Description: Studies have shown that women suffer effects from alcohol faster than men. If a woman has an alcohol dependence problem the risk is high she will have health problems early in life.
Alcohol, Women, and Cancer
Description: Studies linking breast cancer to alcohol use by women have been plentiful. New studies look at links between all types of cancer in women and habits of 1 drink per day to dependence.
Adolescent Alcohol Tolerance
Description: One side effect to adolescent alcohol abuse and binge drinking is tolerance. This ensures that when teens abuse alcohol on a regular basis, they will drink more on each occasion.
Alcohol and Women's Bones
Description: Women need to pay attention to bone health in order to avoid osteoporosis and other bone diseases. Alcohol abuse and dependence can negate the benefits from supplements.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Description: Children born with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) suffer at least one of many problems. Alcohol treatment can help for alcohol abuse and detox for alcohol dependence.
Senior Alcohol Withdrawal Dangers
Description: As we age we become more prone to problems related to alcohol. Senior alcohol abuse often is self-medicating for physical and emotional issues that afflict older men and women.
Senior Health Issues and Alcohol
Description: Alcoholism places a burden on deteriorating vital organs. Alcoholic seniors have high rates of heart, liver, and pancreas problems, and more severe depression and dementia.
Women in Alcohol Treatment
Description: The percentages of women who enter alcohol treatment and remain through completion are lower than for men. Reasons appear to revolve around family and security.
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