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[ 20 Dec 2012 | One Comment ]
Give your car keys to a friend. Don't drive while impaired.

Written by: Angela Rampton
Thousands of lives are lost each year due to drunk, drugged, or distracted driving, and these numbers don’t even take into account the harm done to families and friends who are left behind.
Each year a proclamation is made declaring December to be National Impaired Driving Prevention month to raise awareness of the devastating effect this problem has on our nation, and to help highlight the steps we can take to prevent it.
In this year’s proclamation, President Obama urges families to “talk about the risks and set clear …

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[ 16 Dec 2011 | 3 Comments ]
Dec16blog

The winter holiday season can be a wonderful – though stressful – time of year. To help keep a balanced mindset, we at SAMHSA want to remind everyone to take time to focus on your mental, emotional and behavioral health and well-being during the holidays. We also ask you to be aware that traffic fatalities involving drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs increase during the holidays. Due to the number of driving fatalities during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays,[i] President Barack Obama has declared December National Impaired …

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[ 23 Nov 2011 | 2 Comments ]
Stop Underage Drinking

With turkey, football games, and getting together with family and friends, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is exceptionally busy.  This is also a time when there are more opportunities for binge drinking to become a problem for underage youth, young legal drinkers home for the holidays getting together with friends, and adults.
According to SAMHSA’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH):

There were an estimated 10.0 million underage (aged 12 to 20) drinkers in 2010, including 6.5 million binge drinkers and 2.0 million heavy drinkers.

Among young adults aged 18 to 25 in 2010, the …