Awareness

Combating Stigma of Mental Illness

Contributed by Jennifer Hibbard, LPC For the most part, we take being mentally healthy for granted. We don’t see the impact of symptoms of depression, anxiety or substance abuse on someone’s ability to live their life until the illness is very severe. The National...

Spring into Summer with Live Healthy Gwinnett!

Contributed by Lindsey Jorstad, CPRP Live Healthy Gwinnett is taking steps to improve the health and wellness of Gwinnett County. Developed and launched in 2014, Live Healthy Gwinnett engages those who live, work and play in Gwinnett to invest in personal wellness by...

5 Steps to Conducting a Brown Bag Campaign

Whether for Alcohol Awareness Month, Red Ribbon Week or a truly any time of year, a Brown Bag Campaign is a great project to help prevent underage drinking. This campaign involves distributing brown bags to the community with a message in English and Spanish,...

What You Need to Know About Addiction and the Brain

We continue to expand our knowledge about how our brain functions and communicates. The latest studies have found that there are two systems in the brain, the reward and the anti-reward system. The brain uses many pathways and continually works to stay in balance and...

Why Alcohol Awareness Should Be Your Priority

Contributed by Wendy Jefferson, M.A.Ed., and Devon Michael LoParo, M.A. April is Alcohol Awareness Month, and Emory University’s Center for Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Development (MSACD) would like to encourage everyone to use the month of April to educate...

Celebrate Kick Butts Day 2016

  Contributed by Kinsey McMurtry, MPH On March 16, 2016 young adults across Georgia are encouraged to stand out, speak up and take control against Big Tobacco as part of the national 2016 Kick Butts Day program created by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Each...