During National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week, NIDA and NIAAA scientists will hold their annual web chat with hundreds of teens from around the country. National Drugs & Alcohol Chat Day will be held Jan. 26, 2017 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST. Further details on the popular annual chat, including registration information and transcripts from previous years, can be …

National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week

National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week (NDAFW) will take place Jan. 23-29, 2017.  NDAFW is an annual, week-long observance that brings together teens and scientific experts to shatter the myths about substance use and addiction. Learn more here.   Let’s use this week to help Alaskans understand the harm of excessive alcohol consumption and break down the myths of addiction. …

34th Annual Alaska Health Summit: “The Changing Landscape of Public Health”

The annual Alaska Health Summit takes place on Tues, January 17 to Thurs, January 19, 2017 at the Hotel Captain Cook, Anchorage, Alaska and is one of the largest gatherings of health care providers in the state. The purpose of the Summit is to provide educational opportunities to health care providers, public health practitioners, policy makers, and legislators on current …

Grown Into Addiction

Two Recovering Addicts Share Their Paths to Serenity After Conquering Substance Abuse When we think of a person with a drug or alcohol addiction, we tend to imagine adults. But many of the recovering addicts we spoke to said their habits started in childhood and escalated over time. For some, it stemmed from a family history of substance abuse, while …

2 Your Health: New Year’s resolutions to avoid alcohol

“When a person decides they want to quit, I would say reach out for help immediately because you might not hold onto that feeling of wanting to quit for very long and the sooner you talk to somebody else about it the easier it is to make it a reality,” said Recover Alaska’s Tiffany Hall in this KTUU story about …

Alaska legislature to expect revisions on alcohol laws

Alaska’s alcohol statutes are expected to be revised for the first time in 36 years when legislature convenes in 2017. Read more here. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER FOR MORE NEWS LIKE THIS, STRAIGHT IN YOUR INBOX! [subscribe2 id=”17401″ size=”20″]