YADD - Youth against Alcoholism & Drug Dependency

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Promoting healthy alternatives to substance abuse among young people

• Anynomous

  28 May 2018

  Urgent action is required to prevent the impending public health catastrophe caused by alcohol.

  A paper published in 2002 titled “Drug Use, Abuse and Alcoholism in Zimbabwe” projected that by 2022 (four years from now), alcoholism will be Zimbabwe’s number one social problem.

  In order to avoid the impending disaster, an evidence-based and public health-centered alcohol policy free from the vested commercial interests of the alcohol industry needs to be enacted without delay.

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• Anynomous

  16 May 2018

  Dangerous alcohol consumption was responsible for 3.3 million deaths worldwide in 2012, according to a World Health Organization.

  Harmful alcohol use not only leads to addiction, but it can put people at a higher risk of over 200 disorders like tuberculosis and pneumonia.

  “This actually translates into one death every 10 seconds,” Shekhar Saxena, head of the WHO’s Mental Health and Substance Abuse department, told reporters in Geneva, Global Post reports.

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• Anynomous

  15 May 2018

  "Governments are responsible for the health of their citizens," says Thomas Babor,

  "No other legal product with such potential for harm is as widely promoted and advertised in the world as alcohol."

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• Anynomous

  14 May 2018

  Alcohol and tobacco are by far the biggest threat to human health around the world, while illegal drug harms “don’t even come close”, a major report on addictive substances has found.

  The Global Statistics on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drug Use: 2017 Status Report found a quarter of a billion hours of healthy human life are lost each year because of smoking and drinking, ten times more than is lost to illicit drug use.

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• Anynomous

  06 April 2018

  Good observation Mayor Ben Manyenyeni, the scourge however is not confined to Harare alone but has spread across Zimbabwe.

  Increased alcohol outlet density is associated with increased alcohol consumption and related harms, including medical harms, injury, crime, and violence.

  Urgent action is needed now or the savage tide of alcohol harm will come crashing through as projected by a paper published in 2002 titled “Drug Use, Abuse and Alcoholism in Zimbabwe”. The paper projec...ted that by 2022 alcoholism will be Zimbabwe’s number one social problem.

  In order to avoid the impending disaster, an evidence-based, and public health-centered alcohol policy free from vested commercial interests needs to be enacted without delay in Zimbabwe.

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• Anynomous

  02 February 2018

  Civil Society Concern Regarding The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Partnering With Heineken

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