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ACE 101: Parental Substance Abuse

Stop Abuse Campaign

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.

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SUPRs — Illinois’s State-Funded Program for First-Time Rehab Clients

Gateway Foundation

The SUPR division and its grants aim to help address the state’s opioid crisis and help citizens experiencing addiction. With SUPR, Illinois hopes to reduce substance use and overdoses. An initial assessment helps determine the best care level for you based on the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s (ASAM) criteria.

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How to Get an Illinois DUI Evaluation

Gateway Foundation

Substance Use Disorder (Misuse) Subtle Screening Inventory: This questionnaire involves determining the severity of your addiction and your willingness to make lifestyle changes. High risk: If you show signs of a substance use disorder, your evaluator will assign high risk even if you don’t have prior DUI convictions.

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How you can save babies whose mothers have substance use disorders

Stop Abuse Campaign

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.

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The Truth About Why Your Brain Drives Your Behavior and Addiction

Pure Recovery California

Richard 38, had gone to twelve addiction treatment programs and failed every one of them. Addiction is a chronic brain disorder and not simply a behavior problem involving alcohol, drugs, gambling or sex, experts contend in a new definition of addiction. “Many behaviors driven by addiction are real problems.