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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; pronounced / ˈ s æ m s ə /) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.SAMHSA is charged with improving the quality and availability of treatment and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and the cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
Substance use disorder (SUD) is the persistent use of drugs despite the substantial harm and adverse consequences to one's own self and others, as a result of their use. In perspective, the effects of the wrong use of substances that are capable of causing harm to the user or others, have been extensively described in different studies using a variety of terms such as substance use problems ...
Resources include a comprehensive listing of terms and definitions, resources for parents and youths with a significant emphasis on prevention, as well as a governmental listing of drug and alcohol addiction services, news links, and additional links to The Drug Situation Report (RCMP, 2007), and the 2007 World Drug Report (United Nations ...
Alcohol is responsible in the world for 1.8 million deaths and results in disability in approximately 58.3 million people. Approximately 40 percent of the 58.3 million people disabled through alcohol abuse are disabled due to alcohol-related neuropsychiatric disorders. Alcohol abuse is highly associated with adolescent suicide.
Alcohol (also known as ethanol) has a number of effects on health. Short-term effects of alcohol consumption include intoxication and dehydration. Long-term effects of alcohol include changes in the metabolism of the liver and brain, several types of cancer and alcohol use disorder. [1] Alcohol intoxication affects the brain, causing slurred ...
A tax-supported city library opened in 1891 on the second floor of the City Hall and Opera House. [1] In 1903-1904, the Bozeman Carnegie Library was built on North Bozeman Avenue, also downtown. That building served as a library until 1980, when a new building was constructed several blocks away on East Lamme Street.
The Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Services Block Grant (ADMS block grant) was created in August 1981 with passage the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981. [1] It replaced four earlier grant programs legislated by the Community Mental Health Centers Act, Mental Health Systems Act, Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism ...
KBOZ-FM. / 45.69278°N 110.98250°W / 45.69278; -110.98250. KBOZ-FM (99.9 MHz, "99.9 K-Bear") is a radio station licensed to Bozeman, Montana, United States. The station serves the Bozeman area. [2] The station's license is held by Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC. KBOZ-FM shares a transmitter site with KBOZ and KOBB-FM, east ...
KBOZ. / 45.61611°N 111.08778°W / 45.61611; -111.08778. KBOZ (1090 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Bozeman, Montana, United States. The station serves the greater Bozeman area. The station's license is held by Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC. KBOZ shares a transmitter site with KBOZ-FM and KOBB-FM, east of the studios ...
Alcohol, sometimes referred to by the chemical name ethanol, is a depressant drug [11] found in fermented beverages such as beer, wine, and distilled spirit [12] — in particular, rectified spirit. [13] Ethanol is colloquially referred to as "alcohol" because it is the most prevalent alcohol in alcoholic beverages.