Category Archives: Alcoholism

AAA Nevada is offering tows home for Super Bowl celebrants who choose to drink.

Participants can get a one-way, free tow of up to 10 miles — only to their homes — through AAA’s Tipsy Tow program, which will be offered from 6 a.m. Sunday through 6 a.m. Monday, AAA said. Drivers, potential passengers, … Continue reading

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Using Drugs Without a Prescription Is Illegal Using and Sharing Pills Is Against the Law

You may have heard that unlike underage drinking and marijuana use, using and sharing prescription drugs is legal. Many teens believe that because they get pills from their family’s medicine cabinet, instead of a street dealer, there is nothing illegal … Continue reading

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Cigarette and alcohol use at historic low among teens, but NIDA’s 2011 Monitoring the Future Survey also shows continued high levels of abuse of alternate tobacco products, marijuana and prescription drugs

Cigarette and alcohol use by eighth, 10th and 12th-graders are at their lowest point since the Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey began polling teenagers in 1975, according to this year’s survey results. However, this positive news is tempered by a … Continue reading

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Staying Sober Is The Most Important Thing

What It Was Like My name is Mark, and I am a real, recovered alcoholic. I “grew up” (refused to grow up – a spoiled rotten brat) drinking and doing all of the other hippie stuff rock-and-rollers did in the … Continue reading

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