Addressing Excessive Alcohol Use
Addressing Excessive Alcohol Use: State Fact Sheets - CDC
These fact sheets highlight the public health problem and the status of alcohol policy solutions in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Excessive alcohol use can harm people who drink and those around them. You and your community can take steps to improve everyone's health and quality of life.
Preventing Excessive Alcohol Use - The Community Guide
Excessive alcohol consumption is associated with many health and societal problems including chronic diseases, unintentional injuries, and violence.
How To Help Someone You Know Who Drinks Too Much
Follow these tips for helping a family member or friend who has a drinking problem.
Alcohol misuse is defined as a spectrum of behaviors, including risky or excessive alcohol use, alcohol abuse or alcohol dependence.
Alcohol Use - New York State Department of Health
Excessive alcohol use includes binge drinking, heavy drinking, and any alcohol use by pregnant persons or anyone younger than 21.
Harmful use of alcohol - World Health Organization (WHO)
Alcohol is a toxic and psychoactive substance with dependence producing properties. In many of today's societies, alcoholic beverages are a routine part of ...
Excessive alcohol use prevention and data | Colorado Department ...
Our goal is to reduce excessive alcohol-related harms through data-driven decision-making, increased awareness about the public health impact of excessive ...
Policies and Strategies to Prevent and Reduce Excessive Alcohol ...
Recommended Citation: Alcohol Prevention Ad Hoc Workgroup, State Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse. (2021). Moving Forward: Policies and ...
Understanding alcohol use disorders and their treatment
People with alcohol use disorders drink to excess, endangering both themselves and others. This question-and-answer fact sheet explains alcohol problems and ...
Excessive Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Disorders: A Policy Brief of ...
For the purposes of this policy brief, we use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's term “excessive drinking” to indicate binge, ...
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Translating and disseminating research findings to health care providers, researchers, policymakers, and the public. Important Events in NIAAA History. 1970—The ...
Alcoholism In The Workplace: A Handbook for Supervisors - OPM
It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortion in ...
Addressing Alcohol-Related Harms: A Population Level Response
Alcohol use is the third-leading preventable cause of death in the United States, with an estimated 88,000 alcohol-related deaths annually. With alcohol ...
1 The. American Public Health Association states that increases in alcohol consumption and heavy drinking among women, racial minorities, older adults and the ...
SCAODA Report | Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project (WisAPP)
The State Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (SCAODA) released a comprehensive report looking at ways to reduce excessive alcohol consumption in Wisconsin.
10 areas governments could work with to reduce the harmful use of ...
Drink-driving policies and countermeasures. Availability of alcohol. Marketing of alcoholic beverages. Pricing policies. Reducing the negative ...
Drug and Alcohol Use - Healthy People 2030 | odphp.health.gov
Healthy People 2030 includes objectives focused on preventing drug and alcohol misuse and helping people with substance use disorders get the treatment they ...
Alcohol Use Disorder: What It Is, Symptoms & Treatment
Alcohol use disorder is when people can't stop drinking even when it puts their health and safety at risk. Treatment may include medication and behavioral ...
Oregon Health Authority : Home : Excessive Alcohol Use
It can lead to significant problems including liver disease, diabetes, cancer, alcohol dependence and injuries from motor vehicle crashes and violence.