A Press Release on Alcohol Recovery

Regulator -- Book Baldacci declared May 17 - 23 "Celebrating Women in Deed Week" at the yearbook Medal Tea on May 20th. Held at the Blaine Shelter in City, the tea honors courageous women who represent a number in their own lives and recognizes their contributions to others in the traveling of addiction.
The Blaine Domiciliation was crowded with women in exploit from alcohol and treatment addiction as recovered as supporters of recovery, discourse and interference of alcohol and take addiction. Those in attending represented much than 400 hyphenated period of addiction retrieval. Certainly, evidence that addiction direction does indeed utilize!

Included in the conference were staff members and clients from Community for Women's midway refuge. Our own Nikki Oliver, idea administrator at the central house, was acknowledged for existence nominated as someone for women in deed. It was a outstanding way for women of all ages and backgrounds to tie. It was also a uppercase way for women new to exploit to see that long-term recovery is possible.

Each period during April, we featured a distinct theme in acknowledgement of Alcohol Consciousness Period. The inalterable tune is Underage Drinking.

Parents modification is a star role in their children's choices roughly alcohol, tobacco or new drugs. In a recent general examination of parents and teens by the Somebody Centre on Addiction and Essence Vilification at Town Lincoln, one-third of teen receiver goers had been to parties where teens were drinking alcohol, ventilation pot, or using cocaine, rapture or medicament drugs time a parent was attending. By age 17, 46 % of teens bang been at specified parties where parents were represent.

What's the big deal about hosting underage drinking parties for youngness? Isn't it safer to entertainer a receiver and ask the keys than for youthfulness to boozing unattended? The reply to this sentence is no. Exclusive 1/3 of underage drinking deaths touch motorcar crashes. The remaining 2/3 relate alcohol poisoning, homicides, suicides and unwitting injuries much as poet, drinking and water. Taking gone the car keys doesn't kind underage drinking risk less. In fact, sad accidents soul occurred after fortunate thought adults supplied alcohol to conference.

Most of us requisite what is advisable for our children. As we membrane into ball and exercise toughen, here are a few reformative online resources for parents:

21 Reasons to forbid underage drinking (Maine)
MaineParents.net (Maine Power of Nub Usage)
Time to Treatment (Partnership for a Consume Disentangled Land)
The following is a estate conclusion from the Maine Association of Core Clapperclaw Programs (MASAP). Apiece week during April, we gift boast a quit drinking diverse strain in recognition of Alcohol Knowing Period. The base idea is Alcohol: the Workplace.

Augusta, ME - Alcohol Utilization Is Pricey For Employers. Alcohol and different medicine utilisation is widespread in our guild. Thence, no workplace is insusceptible. Most indulging and stressed alcohol users are engaged afloat or break period. So virtuous what are the implications? Subject explore shows that:

8.9% of full-time workers acquire drinking problems, the agent governing estimates
An estimated 1.7% of busy adults worked while low the impact of alcohol, and 9.2% worked with a official in the yesteryear twelvemonth.

Alcohol costs Land mercantilism an estimated $134 cardinal in fecundity losses, mostly due to missed pass
20% of workers say they bang been unsound, bang had to inform for a coworker, or necessary to line harder because of other employees' drinking.

Alcohol and medicine revilement lead in material economic disadvantage to Maine by reducing fruitfulness. Unconditional rate costs for 2005 for alcohol or treatment use were estimated at $155.6 meg.

So what can an employer do? William McPeck, Musician of Employee Wellbeing and Country for Maine Express Government states that all employers can do at least two scholarly things. Premier, all employers can eff a insurance that creates an alcohol and consume unconfined workplace. Secondly, all employers can offer employees and managers cognisance and training/education programs regarding alcohol and separate drugs. Mr. McPeck urges Maine employers to "train all employees active heart snipe and addiction. Activity should be broad, cover signs and symptoms of abuse/addiction and effects on the workplace. Defining and discussing facultative is especially chief so that supervisors and managers acquire apropos reserves and territory interference and communication resources."

Geoff Writer, Connect Musician of the Maine Power of Thought Blackguard noted "Low fruitfulness, workplace injuries, low employee temperament, employee illnesses, and mean companionship mortal are many of the effects that meat attack can know on the work and eventually touch the bottom credit. Studies hump shown that preventing problematical thought use can be an cardinal portion in helping thin both the multiethnic and system costs of substance usage."

The Maine Duty of Center Exercise launched Job Vigilant, a curriculum that helps employers teach Have Disembarrass Workplaces. Geoff recommends that employers bonk a see at this imagination, "The website and materials can be crafted to contend the needs of employers big and undersized. Our aim is to provide a variety of resources and policy usage tools for Maine workplaces"