Alcohol Abuse Prevention 2012

Today celebrates Alcohol Abuse Prevention as part of SAMHSA’s National Prevention Week. National Prevention Week is new annual health observance supported by SAMHSA that celebrates the work that community organizations and individuals do year-round to prevent substance abuse and promote mental, emotional, and behavioral well-being.

Alcohol Abuse Prevention Resources

Here are three resources to help you better understand alcohol abuse, what you can do to prevent or change it, and why it is not alcoholism.

To anonymously assess your drinking pattern and find suggestions for how to cut down, please visit NIAAA’s website, Rethinking Drinking.  And for an easy, quick read that explains how a person can loose control of their drinking and move beyond “low-risk” drinking limits, check out this eBook, Crossing The Line From Alcohol Use to Abuse to Dependence.

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Lisa Frederiksen

Author | Speaker | Consultant | Founder at BreakingTheCycles.com

Lisa Frederiksen is the author of hundreds of articles and 12 books, including her latest, "10th Anniversary Edition If You Loved Me, You'd Stop! What you really need to know when your loved one drinks too much,” and "Loved One In Treatment? Now What!” She is a national keynote speaker with over 30 years speaking experience, consultant and founder of BreakingTheCycles.com. Lisa has spent the last 19+ years studying and simplifying breakthrough research on the brain, substance use and other mental health disorders, secondhand drinking, toxic stress, trauma/ACEs and related topics.

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