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Alcohol & Drugs in Aboriginal

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Alcohol & Drugs

National program to fight against the abuse of alcohol and drugs in Aboriginal

The National Program to Fight against the abuse of alcohol and drugs among Aboriginal (NNADAP) is an example of Health Canada program which is managed largely by communities and First Nations agencies. Its goal is the one who had presided over its creation in the 70s, namely to help Inuit communities and First Nations to develop and offer programs to reduce high rates of alcohol abuse, drugs and solvents among residents of reserves.

NNADAP supports a national network of 52 treatment centers inpatient totaling approximately 700 beds. It contains background information on these centers as well as those funded by the National Program against solvent abuse among young people (PNLASJ) by consulting the directory of treatment centers, established and maintained in these programs.

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Background & Activities to Prevent Drugs & Alcohol

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Prevent Drugs & Alcohol

NNADAP was introduced in the mid-1970s, as part of a pilot project to fight against the abuse of alcohol and drugs. We made it a permanent program in 1982, saw “the urgency of the problem manifest abuse of alcohol and drug use among First Nations and Inuit (trans. free). This stability has fostered better coordination with other programs promoting health and sobriety in the community.

NNADAP has more than 550 prevention programs and more than 700 workers – almost all employed by the Inuit and First Nations. Activities vary depending on the number of inhabitants and the needs of each community and the availability of skilled workers, but they can be divided into three main categories

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Preventing the Recurrence of Problems With Alcohol & Drugs

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Alcohol & Drugs

Postobservation activities, aimed at preventing the recurrence of problems with alcohol and drugs:

* Counseling
* Circles sharing
* Support Groups
* Crisis Intervention
* Support visits
* Visits awareness
* Referral to treatment
* Referral to a detoxification service
* Referrals to social services
* Referrals to medical services
* Referrals to services offered by the band.

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Different sizes of harmful alcohol

Friday, July 30th, 2010

sizes of harmful alcohol

There are several measures of harmful drinking. The different sizes as there are different ways research is done and looks to alcohol. A hard line between harmful and non-harmful drinking does not exist.

Most of the Dutch drinking alcohol

The majority (81%) of the Dutch population drinks alcohol (2007). Approximately one fifth (19%) of the population drink alcohol. For young people (pupils from 12 to 18 year secondary education) is that about half the alcohol consumed last month: 51% in 2007.

Approximately 10% of the population has drinking problem

Approximately 10% of the Dutch has an alcohol that meets the criteria for problem drinking. There are many underlying differences between groups in the population. Harmful drinking in young adult men is the most common example.

More educated women have less harmful alcohol

Harmful alcohol use is more common in men with lower education. Among women, this association is less clear. There are far fewer drinkers among Moroccans and Turks than among native Dutch.

After years of increase, since 2003 the percentage take 12 – and 13-year olds to drink alcohol off

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Myths about alcohol consumption

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

alcohol consumption

For a long time have been taken as irrefutable truths myths associated with alcohol consumption. Many people have believed and still believe, that alcohol is a stimulant, but it is not. Alcohol, by contrast, is a depressant. While initially people may notice an improvement in their mood, the reality is that their use inevitably leads to depression.

The other big myth is that “alcohol enhances sexual activity.” Here something similar happens in the previous misconception. Although you may feel a greater sexual arousal, the truth is that the indiscriminate consumption of alcoholic drinks ends up causing problems with impotence and even lack of orgasms.

Treatments available for those addicted to alcohol

Certainly, the vast majority of alcohol addicts do not recognize to be, nor do they seek professional help. However, those who receive medical care fail to control the disease greatly. The key is intervention (medical and family support), detoxification (withdrawal monitored and supervised by specialists) and rehabilitation (education about alcohol and its effects to prevent relapse).

In the interest of avoiding such a decline, sometimes prescribed medications such as Acamprosate, which decreases relapse rates, the Antabuse, which produces unpleasant side effects if the person returns to drinking and naltrexone, which reduces the uncontrollable desire for alcohol.

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Alcohol consumption and its consequences

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Alcohol consumption

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), alcoholism is the fifth most important risk factor for premature death and disability:
* Reduces life expectancy by 12 years.
* It is responsible for at least 200,000 deaths annually.
* Is involved in half of all deaths from motor vehicle accidents.
* It is the fourth leading cause of suicides.
* It is related to more than 65% of the murders.
Y * is considered the main health problem in developed countries.

Diseases associated with alcohol addiction
The cerebrum and cerebellum are the primary organs affected by alcohol. The first damage usually cause hallucinations, dementia and delirium tremens, which can be fatal. The damage in the second, meanwhile, tend to cause loss of coordination, vertical and memory.

The liver, for its part, is the organ most affected is responsible for metabolizing the alcohol in 90%. Fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis, are among the ailments caused by harmful habit.

But not just the brain and liver are affected by alcoholism: the stomach, pancreas, kidneys, heart, and to the testes and ovaries, may also be harmed.
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Alcoholism: vice to disease

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Alcoholism

As binge drinking poses serious health risks
Alcohol dependence reduces life expectancy, is linked to half of all deaths in traffic accidents and is one of the causes of suicide.

Miguel is an inveterate alcoholic. At 60 years, has nothing good to tell of his life because of his addiction to alcohol lost family, jobs and prestige. Their only child abandonment can not forgive. Her relatives do to one side. His friends … Miguel has no friends, except for loneliness. Never sought help from a doctor. Never felt sick. But, suffering from alcoholism.

Alcoholism is a chronic disease

More than just a vice, alcoholism is a chronic progressive disease caused by intoxication with ethyl alcohol on a regular and prolonged. Such wasteful consumption often interferes with physical and mental health of those affected and their family responsibilities, work or social.

While noting primarily male, an increasing prevalence in females and between young people in general, reporting a high incidence worldwide.

Role of genetics in children of alcoholics
According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, United States, studies have shown that genetic factors are closely linked to the likelihood of alcoholism. In fact, today it is known that children of alcoholics are four times more likely to develop this disease than the rest of the population.

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Alcohol and Sexuality

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Alcohol and Sexuality

Alcohol can be one source of pleasure, but consumed in excess have devastating effects.

Drinking alcohol in moderate amounts can promote relaxation, reduce anxiety and inhibitions, and even increase confidence in ourselves. That is, its effects seem to us to overcome many problems. Therefore, is very present at the time of social relations.

But if alcohol consumption is excessive, also paid an important bill: the hangover is the result of an agency that has been seriously damaged and, if repeated often, the damage will be irreversible. For example, in sexual terms, although the alcohol increases the desire, is an inhibitor of sexual response, altering their normal functioning.

How excess alcohol affects men
Alcohol tends to inhibit erections. Many young people have their first sexual intercourse after drinking a large amount of alcohol, which normally produce them with erection problems and they create enormous suffering, to attribute failure to their own personal characteristics rather than the effects of drink. The result is often a psychological erectile dysfunction by the fear of further failures.

According Walji and Kingston, has shown that even not too high quantities of alcohol, but continuously ingested, can affect the reproductive system, as the male hormone testosterone is eliminated more rapidly and occurs in smaller quantities, so the drinker will therefore diminished sex drive as the production of sperm.

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Alcoholism Symptoms

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

The more he gets into intellectual capacity and personality of the individual, the disease will progress more, the closer the periods of drunkenness and more intensified and expanded the problems. All this for camouflage and protection. Symptoms usually occur and can be used to make a social diagnosis of alcoholism include:

  • Delayed frequent arrival to work.
  • Frequent absence day after party or at least slow, slurred and irregular work. • frequent disappearances post without prior justification.
  • Small absences for minor illnesses: Colds, flu, or minor accidents occurred with regularity at work, outside, on the road.
  • Progressive change in attitude of the subject hitherto regarded as a good worker, discussions, reviews, small mistakes which seeks to justify, small accidents which offers or other material liable.
  • Marked variations in mood, anger, loss of interest in the job.
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Effects of Alcohol

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Quite often the alcoholic becomes self-harm in order to enjoy free time on the floor of an accident. Alcoholism causes havoc in the industry very difficult to establish in statistics, even if the problem is known. Here are some of the problems:

  • Low productivity
  • Shredding or misuse of the material
  • Deterioration of quality of manufactured product
  • Reduce the rate of production where it is placed
  • Large number of absences or tardiness

These costs increase with the degree of competence or authority of the employee.

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