Addiction Advocacy Psychology Substance Abuse 
Stop Abuse Campaign
APRIL 25, 2022
The ACE study demonstrated that growing up in a household where a parent suffers from a significant, unchecked addiction to alcohol or drugs is as damaging as direct childhood traumas. Why is parental substance abuse a trauma? Substance abuse can complicate the parent-child attachment.
Stop Abuse Campaign
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
We naturally associate things like drug addiction and the symptoms of psychotic mental illness with danger. Mental illness is common among homeless people, but the most common diagnoses include substance abuse and mood disorders. The ACE study shows that childhood trauma increases the risk of addiction and mental illness.
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Stop Abuse Campaign
JULY 15, 2022
The statistics are shocking: ten percent or more of babies born in the United States test positive for alcohol or another mind-altering substance used by the mother struggling with substance use disorder. Babies born addicted to opiates have to start life going through the same agonizing withdrawal process as adults.
Stop Abuse Campaign
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
We naturally associate things like drug addiction and the symptoms of psychotic mental illness with danger. Mental illness is common among homeless people, but the most common diagnoses include substance abuse and mood disorders. The ACE study shows that childhood trauma increases the risk of addiction and mental illness.
Stop Abuse Campaign
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Drug dealing typically starts as a way for users like Larry to make enough money to feed their addiction. His children grew up with a father addicted to drugs and alcohol; I understand their choice to estrange from him. Self-reported addiction, drug dependence, and lifetime usage of illegal drugs. Tobacco use as an adult.
Stop Abuse Campaign
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Drug dealing typically starts as a way for users like Larry to make enough money to feed their addiction. His children grew up with a father addicted to drugs and alcohol; I understand their choice to estrange from him. Drug and alcohol abuse. Self-reported addiction, drug dependence, and lifetime usage of illegal drugs.
Stop Abuse Campaign
AUGUST 14, 2022
I was nine when Nancy Regan proposed we end the crack epidemic and, by extension, other illegal drug abuse, by “just saying no.” I came across a paper entitled “Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults: The Adverse Childhood Experiences ( ACE ) Study.”
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