Sentences with phrase «of abusing alcohol»

Ronny Jackson, President Donald Trump's nominee for Veterans Affairs secretary, announced Thursday he was stepping aside amid new allegations of abusing alcohol and handing out prescription drugs.

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Hoffman was known to have a history of alcohol and drug abuse, and had told the Guardian in 2011 that after a stint in rehab at an early point in his career he had given up drinking.

A Duke University Medical School study found that half of all presidents through 1974 suffered from mental illness, including bipolar disorder, alcohol abuse and depression.

States with the highest percentage of resident age 12 or older who are dependent on or abuse alcohol:

Dr. Louis Baxter, executive medical director of the Professional Assistance Program of New Jersey and an alcohol and substance abuse consultant with the NBA and NFL, told me that it's one thing for CC Sabathia to voluntarily announce that he is going to rehab, «but the public doesn't have a right to know this information, and Sabathia wasn't obligated to disclose it.»

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The increase in use disorders may be partially explained by an increase in the potency of cannabis products, said Beatriz Carlini, of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute at the University of Washington in Seattle.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

Maybe drugs, crime, abuse of alcohol or others... extreme behaviors, then swing that extremism to a polar opposite.

More than half of police officers also say most of their case work involves alcohol - fuelled crimes, while in hospitals 7 in 10 attendances on the weekend is related to alcohol abuse.

But I can say that my brothers were not so fortunate, and they had serious periods of alcohol abuse and broken marriages before they became believers.

Abusing alcohol mocks the blood of Christ and scoffs at God's holiness.

Fatherless children have rates of incarceration, criminal activity, possession of firearms, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, incompletion of school, and overall parental neglect and maltreatment alarmingly higher than their two - parent counterparts.

But it seems clear to me (and scripturally supported as well) that alcohol is not sinful... only the abuse of it which causes harm would be.

We know that abuse of alcohol and drugs increases along with physical abuse of women and children.

Sarah lives in Canada — the west - coast — and works part time for Mercy Ministries of Canada, an organization that supports young women that struggle with life - controlling issues like drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, depression, physical and sexual abuse and self - harm.

It's all about having a support group — this country is chock full of substance abusers, they abuse Rx, they abuse Alcohol, they abuse their spouse or children, they abuse their religion, they hate themselves and so abuse comes naturally.

Habits such as alcohol or drugs abuse, pornography and masturbation, or eating disorders provide relief but then immediately propel us back into an endless cycle of frustration, shame and loneliness.

However, Tony will not be trying it himself: «No, I decided as a teenager that I wanted to be an athlete and I was brought up in the era of George Best - fantastic talent but ended in tragedy because of his abuse of alcohol - and I thought, if I want to be an athlete, the quickest way is just not to bother.»

«The man is an owner of the Navaho Inn, where numerous alcoholics are born, yet he ironically is chairman of the alcohol - abuse rehabilitation committee,» he told the senators.

Every County social services worker knows from direct and shocking experience with their hapless clients that it's actually the HETEROS who are destroying marriage with their high rate of 1) divorce 2) spousal abuse 3) sha cking up 4) child abuse 5) abandonment 6) drugs and alcohol, etc. etc..

The disease model of understanding alcohol abuse confuses moral thinking with moralizing and jugmentalism.

Along the same lines of what Fred said, would it be wrong to ask your wife to change if she were abusing alcohol or other substances that were clearly detrimental to her?

Keel speaks regularly of his experience of his parents» divorce, and about the consequences of drug and alcohol abuse and sexual experimentation.

About 66 percent of American adults drink alcohol, according to 2001 - 2002 figures from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoalcohol, according to 2001 - 2002 figures from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoAlcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Alcohol abuse is a pattern of drinking that results in harm to one's health, interpersonal relationships, or ability to work.

(4) There is no evidence to date for a basic biological process that predisposes an individual toward abuse of alcohol.

Back in July, he was removed from leadership after the church announced that he «had made unfortunate choices and decisions that have caused much concern,» noting his abuse of alcohol and his «posture toward marriage.»

Clinebell begins this particular work with definitions of addiction and alcoholism: «In traditional psychiatric usage, the term addiction is limited to obsessive - compulsive abuse of substances like alcohol and drugs....

He was addressing congregants upset that he was terminated on July 1 after a year of struggling with alcohol abuse.

While many of the latter become addicted to alcohol or narcotics, it is usually their idleness and hopelessness that lead to abuse, and thence to the vicious cycle of joblessness / homelessness / Substance abuse.

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

None of this even begins to mention that the two biggest abused drugs in our society are alcohol and cigarettes.

AA, religion, christ himself, science satanisim, math, medicine or whatever it is you choose to turn to try to get out of pain, remorse, guilt, anger, selfishness, legal problems, drug / alcohol abuse, financial ruin or any other negative result producing situation that you have brought upon yourself if it changes you for the betterand helps others feel better about you or themselves who cares what, who, or how someones higher power works!!!

With some exceptions, such as the Lutheran and Presbyterian churches, both of which have developed chemical - dependency health programs and educational materials, most denominations do almost nothing in response to alcohol and drug abuse.

My seminars have indicated to me that the religious organizations that address the issue of alcohol and drug abuse usually are prodded to do so by one person who is convinced of the need and will not take No for an answer.

25 % of my adults were caught up in the cycle of alcohol abuse.

Kealy's alleged abuse of alcohol many years ago were not based on any personal knowledge, but were simply my supposition from the information that had been passed on.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Lawyers for Kentucky's Department of Insurance are encouraging a judge to hold Medi - Share, a cost - sharing ministry that helps pay medical bills for Christians who don't smoke or abuse alcohol (among other qualifications), in contempt for continuing to operate in the state more than a year after a circuit court judge ordered the Florida - based group to stop until it meets Kentucky insurance regulations.

In addition, alcohol and drug abuse, as well as deaths caused by heart attacks and other stress - related ailments, mount during times when many are out of work.

Save for my mother's relatives — who served as a warning, since most of them abused substances at some point — nobody I knew drank alcohol.

Yet the Bible condemns the abuse of alcohol.

Conservatives make a big deal about abortion but do next to nothing about starvation (1000s die a day), car and road safety, drug and alcohol abuse, gun safety, drug safety, food safety, water safety, preventable disease, etc. all of which kill vast numbers of people.

In Africa, South America, and now Asia, these Christian movements have reordered the character of moral life, calling upon the power of God to save families from alcohol, from domestic abuse, and from the hopelessness of poverty.

Nationally recognized, the Relief Nursery stops the cycle of child abuse and neglect with its blend of therapeutic early childhood services and comprehensive family support, including alcohol and drug recovery support services.

It works with local law enforcement to run PSA's during peak consumption times of their alcoholic beverage portfolio and provide programs like Street Smart for local schools to educate students on alcohol / drug abuse, texting while driving and all - around appropriate behavior.

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