Underage alcohol use is a sweeping problem with serious health and safety repercussions for the Nation. A substantial number of young people begin drinking before the age of 13, which frequently results in alcohol abuse or dependence. The highest prevalence of alcohol dependence is among people ages 18-20. The conclusion being that the impetus is on parents and people in the community to educate

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 The prospect of seeking treatment for your addiction can be daunting. You can never know what to expect. However, many people get help for their addictions everyday and the following is a success story from one such person that I hope will inspire others to make a change in their life and get the help they need:

"I feel like a new person today, then when I first arrived. My thinking has changed

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Alcohol is ranked much more harmful than the Class A drug Ecstasy in a new classification system proposed by a team of leading scientists.  The team identified three main factors that together determine the harm associated with any drug  of potential  abuse: the physical harm to the individual user caused by the drug; the tendency of the drug to induce dependence and addiction; and the effect of

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Over time an addict will start feeling horrible about what they are doing to the point to where they are depressed on a day to day basis. Because they are starting to realize that what they are doing is wrong, hurtful, and humiliating. They end up losing everything that they have including honesty with the family and friends, stuff that they own, all of the money, and most importantly the ability

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Ya know when I was younger my mom told me to never start using drugs because not only were they harmfull but because I could possibly have a addictive personality. She told me that because a lot of my family members were once addited to either drugs or alcohol. Like her herself, my father, my grandfather, and a lot of my uncles were all once addicted to a substance or alcohol. So instead of

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Its really sad when I see people that are so naïve that they cannot not realize what they are going through. So i do the only thing that I can think of, and that is try to help them. And that’s why I work at a drug rehab. It is so rewarding to help people through there addiction. So when people ask me what I do for a job, I easily say that I help save lives. I think that I can really help better

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That's how many people we lose each year to traffic accidents involving alcohol. Some of those people will be great people, valuable people, people who were not themselves at fault. People who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. What could we do with these 13,000 people who died needlessly? Could we have more good teachers? More volunteers? More good fathers, fewer kids losing their

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I don't think that a rehab can work unless it is theraputic to all three areas. Of course the body should be cleansed of old drugs and residues that keep a person from recovering. But many programs never do this. They actually give more drugs. Of course a person should be able to experience counseling that provides relief from past bad deeds that resulted in guilt. Cravings, guilt and depression

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It's bad enough that there are plant and chemical substances that are used as drugs, destroy people's lives and harm health and one's very ability to live. There also have to be pharmaceutical companies that develop more addictive substances and make them legal so they are in circulation in society. Then they promote them to doctors, concealing their addictiveness. Then they take a further step

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I was never an addict but I did use drugs back in the day. I think that part of the mentality of using drugs, whether you are addicted or not, is that you think you can get by without paying the price for something you do that is dangerous, damaging, neglectful of responsibilities. But it is never true. That price is exacted. It may only come out in your own decline of happiness but it is paid.

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