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  • First Things First
  • First Things First
    is located at 2519 North Hillcrest Parkway Altoona, WI. 54720 and can be contacted by calling 715-832-8432. First Things First offers treatment services for Illicit Drug Addiction, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

    Treatment Services Offered: Mental Balance Treatment Services, Outpatient Alcohol Treatment, Dual Diagnosis, AIDS/HIV Clients, Lesbian and Gay, Over 50, Court Appointed Client Services
    Payment Options: Payment Assistance Through Medicaid, Insurance - Private Pay, Insurance - Military, Self Pay

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  • Reducing underage drinking will require community-based efforts to monitor the activities of youth and decrease youth access to alcohol. Recent publications by the Surgeon General and the Institute of Medicine outlined many prevention strategies that will require actions on the national, state, and local levels, such as enforcement of minimum legal drinking age laws, national media campaigns targeting youth and adults, increasing alcohol excise taxes, reducing youth exposure to alcohol advertising, and development of comprehensive community-based programs. These efforts will require continued research and evaluation to determine their success and to improve their effectiveness.
  • Codependency is the tendency to interact with another person in an excessively passive or caretaking manner that negatively affects the quality of the codependent individual's life.
  • Teenage girls with a Blood Alcohol level of .05-.10 are 54 times more likely to suffer a single vehicle crash than their non-drinking counterparts.
  • Following alcohol consumption, many Asian subpopulations experience flushing of the skin, nausea, headache, and other uncomfortable symptoms caused by an enzyme involved in a key step of alcohol metabolism.

For more information, visit www.drug-rehabs.org.