Prevention | Intervention
Why the Term Secondhand Drinking – Alcohol Awareness Month
Why the term Secondhand Drinking and why now? This article is Part 2 in BreakingTheCycles.com’s celebration of April as Alcohol Awareness Month, 2014. As shared in last week’s post, Secondhand Drinking (SHD) is the other side of the drinking equation. What is Secondhand Drinking Secondhand drinking (SHD) is a term to describe the negative impacts of…
Read MoreAlcohol Awareness Month – Two Sides to the Drinking Equation – Secondhand Drinking
Alcohol Awareness Month – April, 2014 – raising awareness about both sides of the drinking equation. There are two sides to the drinking equation – the person doing the drinking that causes drinking behaviors and the person on the receiving end of the drinking behaviors – that is, the person experiencing secondhand drinking (SHD). It is…
Read MoreRaising Awareness About Addiction and Recovery – How One Community Did It
Raising awareness about addiction and recovery – Massac County Drug Awareness Coalition in Metropolis, Illinois, saw a need and filled it. Last Saturday, the Coalition partnered with Heroes in Recovery and the Metropolis Public Library to gather donated books from addiction and recovery book authors to stock a “Recovery Shelf” at the library, read to children,…
Read MoreHaving a Hard Time Controlling Your Drinking – Consider Soberistas.com
Are you having a hard time controlling your drinking? Let me introduce you to a group I’ve just learned of – Soberistas.com. I found them through an article one of my readers shared, “7 Reasons Why Life is Better Without Booze,” by Lucy Rocca, who, it turns out, is the founder of the website Soberistas.com.…
Read MoreHow to Find a Drug Testing Center
Don’t know how to find a drug testing center? Following up on her January 8th guest post, Drug Testing Methods, Lena Butler shares her latest guest post on how to find a federally certified or accredited drug testing center. Lena is a health blogger and customer service representative for TestCountry, a San Diego based point of service diagnostic…
Read MoreAlcohol Screening and Brief Counseling – Helps Screen Alcohol Misuse & Secondhand Drinking
It’s with great excitement that I announce and share the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 2014 Alcohol Screening and Brief Counseling guidelines, along with NIAAA’s (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) Single Question Screen. I’m particularly excited about how easily these can be used by health care professionals to assess and help both “sides” of…
Read MoreDrug Testing Methods
Most people hear “drug test” and instantly think of people peeing into a cup, and for good reason. Most drug testing programs do use urine as the primary way to test for drugs. However, there are other ways to do it. Guest author, Lena Butler, describes the most common drug testing methods, their differences, similarities…
Read More7 Sound Bites to Update 2014 Conversations Around Addiction
If you are like the millions of Americans, you may have some long-held beliefs about addiction; beliefs like, “he has to hit bottom in order to get help,” “fix the addict and the family will be fine,” “no way is alcoholism is a disease – cancer is a disease – all s/he has to do…
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