Battling Addiction

… Dawn and Paul Bracone were arrested in March on charges they served alcohol to dozens of teens during a January birthday party for their 18-year-old son. Their 21-year-old daughter Christine turned herself in to police Monday on similar charges.

All three Bracones were arrested for risk of injury to a minor and delivery of alcohol to a minor. Paul, 51, and Dawn, 43, of 8 Thatcher Lane, asked a Hartford Superior Court judge last month to be allowed to enter an accelerated rehabilitation program in exchange for having the charges dropped.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Underage drinking is worth nearly $23 billion a year to the alcohol industry, or 17.5 percent of all money spent on spirits in the US annually, researchers from New York’s Columbia University report.

And abusive drinking by both underage people and adults may account for nearly half of all money spent on alcohol each year.

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According to a just-published book, “Women Under the Influence,” six million women in the United States abuse or are addicted to alcohol. That’s one woman in 20; 15 million use illicit drugs or abuse prescription drugs (that’s one woman in 10); and 32 million smoke cigarettes. (That’s one woman in five.)

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Tue 14 Mar 2006

ONLY one in 18 alcoholics is getting the necessary help to cope with their addiction, the Government has revealed.

Alcohol Concern today called on the Department of Health to invest more in services for people with alcohol problems.

The charity wants the Department of Health to address the under-funding of treatment services across the country.

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