Quinco Mental Health Center McNairy County Center
641 East Poplar Street
Selmer, TN 38375
(731) 645-5753
Intake: (800) 532-6339
Call
888-647-0579
to speak with an alcohol or drug abuse counselor.
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Campaign aims to steer kids off booze
Thousands of children are being admitted to the region’s hospitals with alcohol-related illnesses. Statistics show more than 3,000 under-18s end up in hospital in North East England each year due to excessive drinking, 149 of those in South Tyneside hospitals. The Department for Children, Schools and Families launched an advertising campaign to get parents to….
Parents, don’t help your babies grow up to be drunkards
Don’t help your babies grow up to be drunkards. It’s a message that some parents should take to heart, especially in hard-drinking Bay County, where teens apparently have easy access to alcohol. Because it’s sometimes provided by parents. In fact, wrong-headed adults are hosting parties at their houses for kids to consume alcohol in a….
Drunks who attack hospital staff face pubs and clubs ban
A New scheme to ban people from city centre pubs and clubs if they assault hospital staff after a night out has been welcomed by Health Minister Edwina Hart. But Alcohol Concern in Wales said while the idea is “useful”, it believes some of the root causes of drink-fuelled violence, such as irresponsible supermarket and….
Minimum pricing of alcohol does not go far enough, says Royal Society of Edinburgh
Minimum pricing has been supported by a broad coalition of health professionals and drinks industry figures The minimum pricing of alcohol in Scotland should be set at 50p per unit — 10p more than that proposed by the SNP government, according to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The society, whose members include experts in health,….
Teenagers uncover reasons behind underage drinking
Three quarters of students admit to having consumed a significant amount of alcohol by the end of their school career, while six percent of 12 to 20-year-olds admitted to being heavy drinkers, according to a 2005 survey conducted by Monitoring the Future. And another survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,….