Exposure to traumatic events was strongly linked to an increased likelihood of substance use among adolescents, such that 37% of all problematic alcohol use, 59% of all smoking, and 28% of all ...

I was able to find recovery and turn my life around due to a small federal agency called the Substance Abuse and Mental Health ... mental health and substance use services. Over the past 30 ...

Duduza – The Department of Social Development (DSD), the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (Sanca), and other stakeholders held a substance abuse awareness school ...

Folks who need to talk to someone about substance abuse have a new number to call ... aims to connect people struggling with substance use issues to effective treatment, with peer support ...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is the federal agency that funds and helps coordinate mental health and substance use services across the country. In California and ...

Substance use in the workplace can lead to billions of dollars in lost ... According to Newgate, not only is 40 per cent of absenteeism in the workplace related to substance abuse, but 10 per cent of ...

LOWELL — Riverbend and Lowell High School have entered into a partnership to provide substance use programming to students ... suffering from substance abuse themselves will be centered around ...

The proposed change "contradicts best practice, contradicts the evidence base concerning substance use and child welfare ... slightest suspicion of child abuse or neglect to DCF.

A growing number of young patients — boys and even girls — falling prey to substance abuse due to easy access ... t a class-specific problem. Drug use cuts across economic strata, affecting ...

A study conducted in Kampala slums and published in the National Library of Medicine in 2023 found that 34.9 percent of adolescents aged 14-19 years reported illicit drug use, and 16.1 percent ...

Marlborough resident Cheryl Juaire will receive the first You-Have-Our AdMIRAtion Award from MiraVista Behavioral Health Center for her work raising awareness about substance use disorder.