Alcoholism

This publication answers some of the questions often asked about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and how it affects peoples’ behaviour, their ability to learn and interact with others.

Substance use during pregnancy can profoundly affect the earliest stages of human development and have longer term harmful effects that carry into early childhood and beyond. This article lists risks associated with alcohol drinking and using drugs by pregnant women.

This publication helps with self-analyzing your substance use behaviour and noticing patterns. It also provides several tools  to help you to understand reasons for drinking alcohol or using drugs  and to change your behaviour.

Information on risks related to alcohol abuse during pregnancy and the prenatal alcohol exposure the can lead to birth defects and cause a range of developmental, cognitive, and behavioural problems, which can appear during childhood and last a lifetime.

This web page contains easy-to-read material for the public covering a wide range of alcohol-related topics including brochures and factsheets.

Carr offers a startling new view of why we drink and how we can escape the addiction. Step by step, with devastating clarity and simplicity, he applies the Easyway™ method, dispelling all the illusions that surround the subject of drinking and what makes it almost impossible to imagine a life without alcohol. It is a landmark work which offers a simple and painless solution to anyone who wants to escape from dependency on alcohol without feeling deprived.

This handbook includes the most recent discoveries about drugs, including new information on the energy-drinks craze, prescription drugs such as OxyContin and Ambien, the date-rape drug GHB, and the unique effects of some drugs on the adolescent brain. Scientifically accurate and easy to read, it gives balanced and objective information on the most often used and abused drugs.