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ADDICTION RECOVERY
Addiction Recovery is a term for the processes of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such as cocaine, heroin or amphetamines.
The general intent is to enable the patient to cease substance abuse, in order to avoid the psychological, legal, financial, social, and physical consequences that can be caused, especially by extreme abuse. Treatment includes medication for depression or other disorders, counseling by experts and sharing of experience with other addicts.
Some rehab centers include meditation and spiritual wisdom in the treatment process. A few centers also treat gambling with the same techniques as are used in drug rehabilitation.
ALCOHOL RECOVERY
Overcoming an addiction to alcohol can be a long and bumpy road. At times, it may even feel impossible. But it’s not. If you’re ready to stop drinking and willing to get the support you need, you can recover from alcoholism and alcohol abuse—no matter how bad the addiction or how powerless you feel. You don’t have to wait until you hit rock bottom; you can make a change at any time. Read to get started on the road to recovery today.
Alcohol treatment and recovery 1: Commit to stop drinking
Most people with alcohol problems do not decide to make a big change out of the blue or transform their drinking habits overnight. Recovery is usually a more gradual process. In the early stages of change, denial is a huge obstacle. Even after admitting you have a drinking problem, you may make excuses and drag your feet.. ..learn more
HIV / AIDS /STD's PREVENTION
Sexual contact
Consistent condom use reduces the risk of HIV transmission by approximately 80% over the long term. When condoms are used consistently by a couple in which one person is infected, the rate of HIV infection is less than 1% per year. ...learn more
Pre-exposure
Antiretroviral treatment among people with HIV whose CD4 count ≤ 550 cells/µL is a very effective way to prevent HIV infection of their partner (a strategy known as treatment as prevention, or TASP). ...learn more
Post-exposure
A course of antiretrovirals administered within 48 to 72 hours after exposure to HIV-positive blood or genital secretions is referred to as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). The use of the single agent zidovudine reduces the risk of a HIV infection five-fold following a needle-stick injury...learn more
HOMELESS REMEDIES
It isn’t enough to move people out of homelessness; we must keep people from falling into homelessness. The threat of homelessness most often occurs when a household has insufficient resources to cover housing costs. Unemployment, a health crisis, or the breakup of a family are the most common causes. The households most vulnerable to homelessness are those with no income or those earning significantly less than the federal poverty level.
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The Plan​
Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness acknowledges that prevention is critical tending homelessness and recognizes that every episode of homelessness that can be averted spares men, women, and children the trauma of homelessness itself. To concentrate on strategies that have proven successful, prevention strategies focus on five key areas:...learn more
FIGHTING POVERTY
In the age of inequality, such anti-poverty policies are more important than ever, as higher inequality creates both more poverty along with steeper barriers to getting ahead, whether through the lack of early education, nutrition, adequate housing, and a host of other poverty-related conditions that dampen ones chances in life.
— Jared Bernstein[
There have been many governmental and nongovernmental efforts to reduce poverty and its effects. These range in scope from neighborhood efforts to campaigns with a national focus. They target specific groups affected by poverty such as children, people who are autistic, immigrants, or people who are homeless. Efforts to alleviate poverty use a disparate set of methods, such as advocacy, education, social work, legislation, direct service or charity, and community organizing.
FIGHTING DESCIMINATION
The Fighting Discrimination Program of Human Rights First focuses on the violence known as hate crimes or bias crimes. Because equality is a cornerstone of human rights protection, discrimination in all its forms is a violation of human rights. Discrimination can take the form of violence generated by prejudice and hatred founded upon a person’s race, ethnicity, religious belief, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or other such factors.
2008 Hate Crime Survey, written by Human Rights First's Fighting Discrimination Program.
Through the Fighting Discrimination Program, Human Rights First seeks to combat discrimination by reversing the tide of antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and anti-Muslim violence and reducing other bias crime in North America, Europe, and the Russian Federation...learn more
HUNGER CAN BE REMEDIED
As of 2012, the United States government spent about $50 billion annually on 10 programs, mostly administrated by the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, which in total deliver food assistance to one in five Americans.[1]
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The largest and only universal[25] program is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as the food stamp program. In the 2012 fiscal year, $74.6 billion in food assistance was distributed.[26] As of December 2012, 47.8 million Americans were receiving on average $133.73 per month in food assistance.[26]
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Despite efforts to increase uptake, an estimated 15 million eligible Americans are still not using the program. Historically, about 40 million Americans were using the program in 2010, while in 2001, 18 million were claiming food stamps. ...learn more
VETERAN ISSUES REMEDIES
10 Strategies to End Veteran Homelessness
We know how to end homelessness for Veterans. USICH has identified 10 strategies that increase leadership, collaboration, and coordination and promote rapid access to permanent housing for all Veterans.
The goal to end Veteran homelessness is in reach and we must redouble our efforts until every community has a sustainable system in place to end it once and for all. Each strategy is accompanied by tools, guidance, and other resources to help you understand how to implement these strategies more effectively.
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION
Educators have an important role in stopping and preventing child abuse and neglect.
Violence touches everyone; not only homes and families, but also schools, institutions, workplaces and communities. Children and youth are the most vulnerable to all forms of violence—physical, sexual and emotional.
Child abuse and neglect can have serious, long-lasting negative effects on children’s and youths’ development, including their ability to learn.
Because educators are in a unique position to spot the signs of child abuse and neglect, they play an important role in reporting child abuse and supporting young people. ...learn more
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