View a breakdown of common drugs and the effects they have on mental and physical health.
Women who use alcohol, tobacco or illicit drugs while pregnant put their own health, as well as the health of their baby at risk. Some of the dangers of substance use during pregnancy can include still birth, neonatal abstinence syndrome, birth defects, premature birth and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Mental health is a state of well-being that is emotional, psychological, and social. Mental health affects everything: how someone thinks, feels, and
acts. It also affects our choices and decisions, how we relate to one another, and how we deal with all kinds of stress. Learning about mental health and what positive mental health looks like is important for people of all ages!
Odds Are is working to warn Alabamians about the risk of drugs being laced with deadly doses of Fentanyl. View their Toolkit and ways you can help.
Opioids are a class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and pain relievers that are available legally by prescription. Although opioids are available legally by prescription, they are still often misused and can be dangerous, even causing death.
Prevention is anything used to educate and support communities in hopes to stop the development of substance use disorders. Prevention is important because mental health and substance use disorders are very common.
Prevention programs can be adapted to best help specific groups of people that are more at risk for developing a substance use disorder.
A person can be diagnosed with a substance use disorder when there is repeated use of alcohol and/or drugs and that use has negatively changed that person’s life by affecting their health, their job, and/or their relationships with their friends and family.
People with mental health disorders are at greater risk of considering, attempting or dying by suicide. Research has shown that when mental health disorders are not treated, the risk of dying by suicide is greater.
The main goal of treatment is to help people manage their addiction and address any problems that have come from their substance use or may get in the way of their recovery like unhealthy relationships, health problems, past trauma, other mental health problems, and more.