Anti-Alcohol PSA Video For Teens
Anti-Alcohol PSA Video For Teens. From the public domain. Alcoholism is a chronic disease that makes your body dependent on alcohol. You may be obsessed with alcohol and unable to control how much you drink, even though your drinking is causing serious problems with your relationships, health, work and finances. It’s possible to have a problem with alcohol, but not display all the characteristics of alcoholism. This is known as alcohol abuse, which means you engage in excessive drinking that causes health or social problems, but you aren’t dependent on alcohol and haven’t fully lost control over the use of alcohol. Although many people assume otherwise, alcoholism is a treatable disease. Medications, counseling and self-help groups are among the therapies that can provide ongoing support to help you recover from alcoholism. Alcoholism is a disease. It is often diagnosed more through behaviors and adverse effects on functioning than by specific medical symptoms. Only 2 of the diagnostic criteria are physiological (those are tolerance changes and withdrawal symptoms). Alcohol abuse and alcoholism are associated with a broad range of medical, psychiatric, social, legal, occupational, economic, and family problems. For example, parental alcoholism underlies many family problems such as divorce, spouse abuse, child abuse and neglect, welfare dependence, and criminal behaviors, according to government sources.
Video Rating: 3 / 5
Our Drugs, Alcohol and Society (48-371)Public Service Announcement. Done by: Courtney Cox, Renee Sitney, Steve Platz
Video Rating: 5 / 5
July 26th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
@4200jadale That is like saying schizophrenia is not a disease. You are talking about an infectious disease, whereas the word “disease” simply means an affliction of one’s health. Alcoholism is a form of addiction and addiction is a disease. People tend to be genetically predispositioned to addiction, and this is a disease.
I do think the video is stupid as half the kids are not in high school and the others just look like losers. This rosaryfilms is terrible, but alcoholism is bad.
July 26th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
With all the harm it causes it might aswell be one.
July 26th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Alcohalism is not a disease! There is no known virus that causes people the be addicted to things like alcohal or drugs! Am I wrong?!
July 26th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
I feel sorry for those kids with F.A.s, and i feel sorry for myself..I have F.A.S as well too..
July 26th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
no, as in my name is Courtney Cox and I was one of the group members who created the PSA.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
when you say done by, it means that Courteney is behind this announcement or that she actually drunk while pregnant?
coz the later seems unlikely.