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Rape, domestic violence, suicide, child abuse, fetal brain damage from alcohol, and alcoholism: for more than 40 years Alaska has the highest rates in the nation. A recent survey of Alaskan women found one in three had been...
...This proves easier said than done, and that's when you realize that this is not a movie about flying or pilots, but about alcoholism, replete with AA meetings, sponsors, sincere attempts at sobriety, relapses, and redemptions. To be sure, this is worthy...
...Development and implementation of the training is under way, officials said. The Alaska Mental Health Board and Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse has partnered with many organizations statewide to establish goals, training programs, and resources for...
...and ongoing support to clients through its 12-step program. It has a wide range of services to help people recover from alcoholism and drug abuse. A local yoga-studio owner leads a group of the program's clients twice weekly in a restorative yoga class...
...have our hands full," French, a former prosecutor, said, noting problems like domestic violence, sexual assault and alcoholism in the state. "And you can't build enough prisons; you can't send everybody to prison. You sort of have to change...
Tax won't stop alcoholism; method using diet, nutrition would...problems we will never get a handle on alcoholism! The only thing this alcohol tax...Anyone truly interested in fighting alcoholism please call me at 283-3884 or 394-6024...
...Medicine at Yale University. The study is funded through a five-year grant by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Office of Minority Health Research. The study began in Sitka in January and was expanded to Haines and Klukwan in...
...gathering. All are welcome. Mental health, drube abuse groups meet The Alaska Mental Health Board and the Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse will hold their spring meeting Wednesday -- Friday, May 18 -- 20, at the Bidarka Inn, in Homer, with...
...turned to more general things, like cancer and heart trouble and diabetes.'' James points to alcoholism as the biggest health problem today. Alcoholism has a lot more social problems attached to it and is most disruptive to families, especially...
...who despite their best efforts to find work have not,'' Nordlund said. They struggle with deep-rooted problems such as alcoholism, drug addiction and mental illness, case managers say. Some land jobs that don't pay enough to end their reliance on...