Anuvia promotes wellness in our community by providing compassionate treatment and prevention services of the highest quality to impact the disease of addiction.

Girl Voice Registration

If you would like to register for the Girl Voice Conference that will be held June 14, 2012, download the registration form, complete it and either fax or e-mail your registrataion to Jenny Wade.

Anuvia is Mecklenburg County’s lead agency aggressively reducing barriers to substance abuse information, education and clinical care. For the fiscal year 2010-2011, Anuvia served 17,259 participants (7,279 unduplicated) with prevention services and programs, processed 712 Driving-While-Impaired transfer cases for out-of-state DWI convictions, had 330 people complete Alcohol & Drug Education Traffic School, logged 3,276 triage contacts, conducted 100 assessments in Spanish and 1,793 assessments in English, served 182 clients with short-term treatment options (programs less than 90 hours), provided intensive outpatient treatment to 768 clients and served 160 clients in a comprehensive outpatient treatment program that addresses clients diagnosed with substance abuse and a severe and persistent mental illness.

Alcohol awareness includes knowing the following basic facts about alcohol:

  • Ethanol, commonly known as alcohol, found in beer, wine and spirits (like whiskey, gin, scotch, vodka, etc.) is a psychoactive drug that has a depressant effect.
  • Alcohol is addictive and the state of addiction to alcohol is known as the disease of alcoholism.
  • Seventy-nine thousand deaths are annually attributed to excessive alcohol use.
  • Alcoholism is the third leading lifestyle-related cause of death in the nation.
  • Up to 40 percent of all hospital beds in the United States (except for those being used by maternity and intensive care patients) are being used to treat health conditions that are related to alcohol consumption.
  • Common signs of alcohol abuse include repeatedly neglecting responsibilities, alcohol use in dangerous situations, legal problems due to drinking, continued drinking despite relationship problems, drinking to de-stress.
  • 5.3 million adults – 36 percent of those under correctional supervision at the time – were drinking at the time of their conviction offense.
  • Alcohol is a factor in 40 percent of all violent crimes today.
  • About 3 million violent crimes occur each year in which victims perceive the offender to have been drinking, including rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated and simple assault.
  • About two-thirds of violent crimes are characterized as simple assaults. Based on victim reports, alcohol use by the offender was a factor in 37 percent of rapes and sexual assaults, 15 percent of robberies, 27 percent of aggravated assaults and 25 percent of simple assaults.
  • An estimated 32 percent of fatal car crashes involve an intoxicated driver or pedestrian.
  • Nearly 13,000 people are killed each year in alcohol-related accidents.
  • Alcohol-related crashes cost American taxpayers over $100 billion.
  • There are more than 1.4 million arrests for DWI each year (less than 1 percent of self-reported alcohol-impaired driving) and 780,000 are convicted. Two-thirds of those sentenced to incarceration are repeat DWI offenders.

Community Wellness

Professional development workshops that include NCSAPPB credit hours are scheduled for Thursdays, March 22 through May 31, at Anuvia Prevention & Recovery Center. Workshops are also open to the public, so if you are a teacher, parent or community leader, you are welcome to attend. Registration is required and the workshop fee is $20. Topics include:

  • What happens after detox?
  • Drug trends in Mecklenburg County
  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
  • Gang prevention
  • Using hip-hop to understand today’s youth

Visit the trainings page for more information.

Thanks to the Mecklenburg County ABC Board

Substance abuse services available at Anuvia are made possible in part by generous funding from the Mecklenburg County ABC Board. To learn more about how our local ABC Board is serving our community, click here.

 

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