Alcohol Abuse Articles page 9

Farmington Daily Times - A San Juan County state senator proposed a bill Monday that would allow the county to increase a tax on liquor and use the extra funds to maintain alcohol abuse treatment programs. Steve Neville, R-Farmington, introduced the bill to the New Mexico ...

Sioux City Journal - The measure would bring in an estimated $35 million, mostly to help local governments pay for rising law enforcement costs that they say are related to alcohol abuse. Keck and his wife, Sandi Vojta, listened to debate on the measure in the Senate ...

News.com.au - Drug & alcohol abuse is a widespread community problem, it doesnt discriminate & footballers are not immune. Its an unfair expectation that all footballers will have no social issues, parents need to explain to there children that regardless of which ...

Fort Pierce Tribune - MARTIN COUNTY — The Martin County Commission is seeking applications from individuals interested in being considered for appointment to fill a vacancy on the Drug & Alcohol Abuse Awareness Committee. All individuals serve without compensation and ...

Daily Telegraph - French doctors have raised fears about the growing problem of alcohol abuse among children, amid claims that the culture of binge drinking is making in-roads from across the Channel. For generations, France has been held up as an example of ...

News.com.au - VICTORIANS are fed up with the violence, drugs and alcohol abuse plaguing their state, an exclusive Herald Sun survey shows. Asked to select three of eight issues of greatest concern to them, 70 per cent of more than 15,000 Herald Sun readers ...

News.com.au - THE Herald Sun readers' survey reinforces demands for stronger measures to rein in the alcohol abuse and associated violence damaging our community. Our survey of 15,000 readers named the epidemic of street violence as chief concern and ...

Salem News - Dear Dr. Levy: Have the rates of alcohol problems been increasing? With all the stress in the world, I would think alcohol problems are probably getting bigger and bigger. A: You ask an interesting question. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse ...

Gloucester Daily Times - It has been said many times that the best protection for minors from drug or alcohol abuse is a healthy relationship with their parents. The same is true of the Internet. Anything the schools can do to promote those healthy relationships will do more ...

Portsmouth Herald - Winnacunnet School Board member Venus Merrill said drugs and alcohol abuse is a real problem. She said the school and the community needs to do more. Last year, 17 student-athletes were suspended from their team for drinking at a party. In 2006, a ...