Sentences with phrase «includes chronic alcoholism»

The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination against people with physical or mental disabilities, and that includes chronic alcoholism.

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Dr. Ramirez was most recently a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a position that included improving public awareness of the chronic effects of excessive alcohol consumption and finding ways to prevent alcoholic liver disease.

Zinc deficiency has been observed in acquired conditions, including malabsorption syndrome (McClain 1985), malnutrition (Keen 1990), cancer (Mocchegiani et al. 1994), alcoholism (Zarski et al. 1987), end - stage liver disease (Pescovitz et al. 1996), uremia (Mahajan et al. 1982) and chronic and acute infectious diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 3 type 1 (HIV - 1) infection (Ripa and Ripa 1995).

I also offer a counseling group for women who grew up in families where the children's needs were not adequately met for a variety of reasons, including, among others, parental alcoholism, mental illness, or chronic physical illness, or possibly the death or absence of one or both parents.

These include marital separation, divorce and remarriage; alcoholism and chemical dependence; chronic, severe, and potentially life - shortening illnesses; untimely or premature death; and complicated psychiatric disorders.

Some examples of disabilities as constituted under the federal Fair Housing Act and Fair Housing Amendments Act include mobility, hearing, or visual impairments, chronic alcoholism (with treatment), mental illness, mental retardation, and HIV or AIDS.