Tax helps push sales of alcopops down but nation still thirsty, whatever the flavour
THE alcopops tax has ”probably” reduced heavy drinking by young people but Australia’s overall alcohol consumption still remains marginally higher than five years ago, fuelling expert calls for wider liquor reforms.
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Emata: Filipinos are shock-free
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Across Nation, Budget Talks Stir Pessimism
SAN FRANCISCO — On Friday morning, President Obama insisted that he completely understood how the American people — a phrase he mentioned more than two dozen times — felt about the slow pace of negotiations over the debt ceiling.
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Prosecutor Releases Statement on Statute of Limitations in Brandon D’Annunzio’s Death
Ten-year deadline expired before investigators could identify suspect in East Lansing manslaughter case.
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Treatment, not medicine, helps asthma patients feel better:study
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Inhaling albuterol helps asthmatic lungs work better, but patients who get it don’t feel much better than those treated with a placebo inhaler or phony acupuncture, according to a U.S. study.
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Chavez plans to have more cancer treatment in Cuba
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he plans to return to Cuba for more cancer treatment, in a move that will raise further concerns about his illness that has upended the OPEC nation’s politics.
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Roll out treatment as prevention now to stop HIV and AIDS
( International AIDS Society ) The Lancet, a leading global medical journal, published an editorial comment today that emphasizes the critical role of expanding access to HIV treatment under a “treatment as prevention” strategy to stop the HIV pandemic.
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Micromet drug helps 75 percent of leukaemia patients
LONDON (Reuters) – An experimental drug from Micromet reduced levels of cancer cells to undetectable levels in nine out of 12 patients with a severe form of leukaemia, interim data from a clinical study showed on Friday.
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Prelate’s Words to UN on Violence Against Women
GENEVA, Switzerland, JUNE 10, 2011 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is the address Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See’s permanent observer at the U.N. offices in Geneva, delivered June 3 to the 17th Session of the U.N. Human Rights Council on the topic of violence against women.
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Barefoot college helps Venezuela Indians fight back
CANO TAUCA, Venezuela (Reuters) – Every morning, groups of tribespeople cross a jungle creek from their adobe student homes and wander barefoot through savanna inhabited by boa constrictors to reach class at Venezuela’s first indigenous university.
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Fellowship program helps faith communities mobilize for environmental leadership
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’”

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Church program helps those struggling with addiction
Addiction comes in many forms – good and bad. For those with unhealthy addictions, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a recovery program open to the general public.

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Project FOCUS helps young people deal with drug, alcohol abuse’simpact on their families
CARE’s Project FOCUS is a free, six-night program for youth ages 6-15 concerned with or affected by a family member’s use of alcohol or other drugs.

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Celine Dion helps with new book about addiction
Celine Dion has helped produce a new book being released today — although she can’t be there to attend the launch. The megastar singer is in hospital struggling with complications resulting from her pregnancy.

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Macon Street Outreach Program Helps People with Addictions
Amanda Smith says she got help with her addiction from Lizzie Chapel Baptist Church. The support from clergy and members she says inspired her to get clean and help others.

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‘Ride for hope’ helps women in trouble get their lives back on track
They call themselves warriors for Christ. The Christian motorcyclists organized the 5th annual “ride for hope” to raise funds for the Seasons of Hope, a non-profit treatment facility helping women in trouble get their lives back on track.

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Facility helps offenders uncover talents once masked by violence
BY BRIDGET THARP BLADE STAFF WRITER One teenager formed a gang because his peers were picking on him. Another imagined the lifestyle could be a lucrative career. “I don’t want to be doing this for the rest of my life. But I’m so close to them. I liked it, though, like an adrenaline rush,” one former gang leader said. “Police even told us, ‘You don’t even know what you’ve been doing.’•” Such …

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Youth and Shelter Services helps teens recover from addictions
Dustin wants to go to college. He wants to find his own apartment and pay his own bills. And he wants to help other teens recover from drug and alcohol addiction.

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How AA helps an alcoholic recover from addiction
Before Bill Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, there was little hope for those with a drinking problem. Intelligent, highly successful people could not understand why they consistently got into trouble when they drank.

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Faith-based program helps Tri-Citians struggling with addiction
RICHLAND — Bill Roe used to struggle with alcohol addiction. He tried different kinds of t

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Drug that helps prevent relapse in alcoholics effectively
Washington, Sept 8 : Scientists have found that a drug called Acamprosate that helps prevent relapse in alcoholics.

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Media-savviness helps kids avoid alcohol
SEATTLE, Aug. 25 (UPI) — Teaching children as early as third grade to be more skeptical of media messages can help prevent substance abuse, a U.S. researcher says. Substance abuse – United States – Alcohol – Addiction – Health

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Teen Challenge helps women overcome drugs, alcohol through faith
Erin Mahar grew up dreaming she would someday make a positivedifference in the world.

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Local Program Helps Teens Overcome Obstacles, Graduate
GLAD breaks the cycle of abuse, drugs, violence

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Anchorage helps others but now they’re in need
Anchorage treatment center needs the community’s help.

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Annual festival helps church reach out to aid community
HOWELL — St. Veronica Church, Route 9, will host its 31st annual festival from June 23-26. This event represents the single largest fundraising campaign for the church and the surrounding communities. More than 15,000 people from the surrounding Monmouth and Ocean County communities are expected to visit the festival, according to a press release. read more

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