Health

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...

Make Your Holidays Safe and Fun

The holiday season is right around the corner, and many of us will soon be hosting and attending parties and events to celebrate. If you are hosting a party for other adults or for youth, it’s important to recognize your responsibility in keeping others out of harm’s...

Live Your Life Naturally High

Youth today have the opportunity to explore new activities and to stay engaged in ways that were never before possible. These opportunities create a multitude of ways for youth to live naturally high. Natural highs are activities or events that a person enjoys and...