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The Puerto Rico Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration [1] —Spanish: Administración de Servicios de Salud Mental y Contra la Adicción (ASSMCA)— is a Puerto Rico-based organization associated with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. [2]
Challenges include immigration, discrimination, violence, low socioeconomic status (SES), alcohol and substance use. [11] [12] Many U.S.-born Latino children have a foreign-born parent who is considered an unauthorized immigrant, presenting many challenges for the family. [13]
The national education sector derives a clear mandate to respond to substance use through policy language that typically calls the sector to take responsibility for promoting ‘health and safety’, ‘healthy lifestyles’ or ‘life- skills’ among students.
Examination of Conscience (Spanish: Examen de Conciencia) is a Spanish documentary television miniseries created by Enric Hernández, Luis Mauri, and Albert Solé, and directed by Albert Sol premiered on Netflix on January 25, 2019. The three 50-minute episodes examines the extent of child abuse accusations across three Spanish Marist Brother ...
Substance abuse prevention, also known as drug abuse prevention, is a process that attempts to prevent the onset of substance use or limit the development of problems associated with using psychoactive substances. Prevention efforts may focus on the individual or their surroundings.
Cannabis abuse or dependence reported a lifetime prevalence of 6.8% and a 12-month prevalence of 3.2%. [196] Other drug abuse or dependence has a lifetime prevalence of 4.0% and a 12-month prevalence of 0.7%. [196] Substance use disorder is a term used interchangeably with a drug addiction. [197]
How language affects identity and mental health. Though the lack of Spanish fluency is common among second- and third-generation Latinos, it can often result in teasing by family and friends.The ...
A poster circa 2000 concerning cannabis in the United States.. The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign is a current US government health education campaign by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) within the Executive Office of the President of the United States with the goal to "influence the attitudes of the public and the news media with respect to drug abuse" and of ...