Sentences with phrase «alcohol abusers by»

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Therefore, intervening in the social connections of alcohol abusers may help to mitigate the damage done by alcohol misuse.»

Instead he advocates three steps informed by research: requiring background checks for all U.S. gun sales, forbidding alcohol abusers and those convicted of violent misdemeanors from buying guns, and rewriting current federal restrictions on gun ownership to better capture people who are mentally ill and at risk of violence to themselves or others.

Ms. Whiteman's fight for her daughters was unsuccessful, partially because hair - strand testing done by the Motherisk lab indicated that she was a chronic alcohol abuser.

Roughly 50 percent of individuals with severe mental disorders are affected by substance abuse; 37 percent of alcohol abusers and 53 percent of drug abusers also have at least one serious mental illness; and of all people diagnosed as mentally ill, 29 percent abuse either alcohol or drugs [Source: National Alliance on Mental Illness]