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“Siblings are Special,” a pilot prevention program targeting fifth graders and their younger siblings, recently received $1.45 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse as part of the National Institutes of Health’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding. The award is for two years. The program aims to enhance the quality of sibling and family relationships and thereby decrease risky behavior and use of drugs among youth as they move into middle school.

Doctors attending the BMA’s annual conference in Liverpool have today (Thursday 2 July 2009) backed calls to introduce a minimum price for a unit of alcohol. Proposing a motion which also included calls for clearer labelling and a total ban on alcohol advertising, Dr Chandra Mohan from Barking, Havering and Brentwood, said: “People drink alcohol in different patterns and for different reasons, so a multi-directional approach is needed to address these problems.

Doctors yesterday reaffirmed their support for a minimum pricing strategy for a unit of alcohol. Speaking today at the BMA’s annual conference in Liverpool, Newry consultant and BMA Board of Science member Dr Peter Maguire said, “Excessive consumption of alcohol and related diseases affect all parts of society.

If exercise can help people in residential treatment facilities and subjects in scientific studies, it can benefit anyone trying to quit drinking and drugging or striving to maintain abstinence….

Recovering alcoholics and addicts can easily find themselves substituting one addiction for another, becoming compulsively involved in other activities. Although those activities may be otherwise healthy and productive, such…