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  2. Alcohol abuse - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol misuse is a term used by United States Preventive Services Task Force to describe a spectrum of drinking behaviors that encompass risky drinking, alcohol abuse, and alcohol dependence (similar meaning to alcohol use disorder but not a term used in DSM).

  3. Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Wikipedia

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    Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist NHS provider of health services including mental health services, neurodevelopmental services (learning disabilities and autism), children's health services, drug and alcohol recovery services and gambling support services. It is currently rated 'good' by health regulator the Care ...

  4. Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust - Wikipedia

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    In December 2014 the trust won a contract to lead the running of health services at both Strangeways prison and HM Prison Buckley Hall in Rochdale. They were to work with drug and alcohol abuse charity Lifeline project. [4] The trust spent £4,615,299 on private mental health placements in 2013/4. [citation needed]

  5. Alcoholism - Wikipedia

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    Based on combined data in the US from SAMHSA's 2004–2005 National Surveys on Drug Use & Health, the rate of past-year alcohol dependence or misuse among persons aged 12 or older varied by level of alcohol use: 44.7% of past month heavy drinkers, 18.5% binge drinkers, 3.8% past month non-binge drinkers, and 1.3% of those who did not drink ...

  6. Long-term effects of alcohol - Wikipedia

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    The level of ethanol consumption that minimizes the risk of disease, injury, and death is subject to some controversy. [16] Several studies have found a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health, [17] [18] [2] [19] meaning that risk is minimized at a certain (non-zero) consumption level, and drinking below or above this level increases risk, with the risk level of drinking a ...

  7. Alcohol and health - Wikipedia

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    More than 200 injuries and disease conditions are caused due to alcohol misuse. [82] It is a causative agent influencing maternal health and development, noncommunicable diseases (including cancer and cardiovascular diseases), injuries, violence, mental health, and infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. [83]

  8. Alcohol dependence - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol dependence is differentiated from alcohol abuse by the presence of symptoms such as tolerance and withdrawal. Both alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse are sometimes referred to by the less specific term alcoholism. However, many definitions of alcoholism exist, and only some are compatible with alcohol abuse.

  9. Public Health England - Wikipedia

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    Its formation came as a result of the reorganisation of the National Health Service (NHS) in England outlined in the Health and Social Care Act 2012. It took on the role of the Health Protection Agency, the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse and a number of other health bodies. [4]