To our Travis County Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition (TCYSAPC) family, membership, and community: TCYSAPC has been working with Kids Living Well (KLW) for the past year and this partnership has been one that has brought about a tremendous amount of good to the community. For all future endeavors, the 2 coalitions will no longer operate separately but will merge. Kids Living Well incorporates a whole health approach to address youth substance use prevention in our community. We are excited about this transition. To learn more, please visit: https://kidslivingwell.org/.
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Tag Archives: Alcohol Abuse
Alcohol-free tailgate at University of Texas unites Austin’s sober community toward recovery
Oct 23, 2017 – The Daily Texan — Saturday was not Miriam Rivero’s first UT tailgate, but it was the first where she felt comfortable as a student in recovery from addiction. Rivero attended an alcohol-free tailgate, hosted by sober fraternity Alpha 180 and the Recovery First Tailgaters, to celebrate … Continue to full story .......
Drug use tops booze for first time in fatal U.S. crashes: study says
April 25, 2017 — Reuters Washington — U.S. data has shown for the first time that drivers killed in crashes were more likely to be on drugs than drunk, with marijuana involved in more than a third of fatal accidents in 2015, a study released on Wednesday showed. Forty-three percent … Continue to full story .......
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For Public Health, Is Alcohol the Next Tobacco? Alcohol is bigger than opioids, although we’re focusing on opioids
Nov. 18, 2016 — USNEWS.com — The U.S. Surgeon General’s office has issued the agency’s first-ever report on addiction, which includes proposals for restricting alcohol access that critics say go too far and could end up targeting usage among even casual drinkers.
The report, Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon