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About 14 million Americans abuse alcohol or are alcoholics. That\u2019s one out of every 13 adults. In addition, about one in five Americans between the ages of 16 and 59 have reported using at least one illegal drug.<\/p>\nAbout 14 million Americans abuse alcohol or are alcoholics. That\u2019s one out of every 13 adults. In addition, about one in five Americans between the ages of 16 and 59 have reported using at least one illegal drug.<\/p>\n
What is Alcohol and Drug Abuse?<\/strong> What is Alcoholism and Drug Addiction?<\/strong> What to Do if You Need and Want Help<\/strong> Your provider will talk with you about your drinking and drug use. Based on your responses, he or she will recommend the right kind of care for you.<\/p>\n What to Do to Get Well<\/strong> There are certain things you can do to make refraining from drug or alcohol use easier:<\/p>\n What is Alcoholics Anonymous?<\/strong> What is Narcotics Anonymous?<\/strong> Where Can I Go for More Information?<\/strong><\/p>\n About Alcoholism\/Substance Abuse<\/strong> Alcoholics Anonymous World Service Office (AA)<\/strong> Nar-Anon Family Groups<\/strong> Adult Children of Alcoholics<\/strong> National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Info<\/strong> About 14 million Americans abuse alcohol or are alcoholics. That\u2019s one out of every 13 adults. In addition, about one in five Americans between the ages of 16 and 59 have reported using at least one illegal drug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-14","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlcohol and drug abuse is a pattern of drinking or drug use that results in one or more of the following:<\/p>\n\n
\nAlcoholism and drug addiction include four symptoms:<\/p>\n\n
\nAdmitting you have an alcohol or drug problem and accepting help for it is hard \u2013 very hard. The
\nsooner you get help, the better your chances of recovery.<\/p>\n
\nTreatment may include one or more of the following:<\/p>\n\n
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\nAlmost all alcohol and drug treatment programs involve Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings. AA describes itself as a \u201cworldwide fellowship of men and women who help each other to stay sober.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nNarcotics Anonymous (NA) is an effective mutual help program for drug addicts. NA describes itself as a \u201cfellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem.\u201d NA\u2019s approach is complete abstinence from all drugs.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/alcoholism.about.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwww.aa.org<\/a>
\n212.870.3400
\nNarcotics Anonymous (NA)<\/strong>
\nwww.na.org<\/a>
\n818.773.9999
\n Al-Anon\/Alateen Family Groups<\/strong>
\n www.al-anon.alateen.org<\/a>
\n888.425.2666<\/p>\n
\n www.nar-anon.org<\/a>
\n800.477.6291<\/p>\n
\n www.adultchildren.org<\/a>
\n310.534.1815<\/p>\n
\nwww.samhsa.gov<\/a> or
\nhttp:\/\/health.org<\/a>
\n800.662.4357<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"