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- Drugs can aid healing when used as prescribed.
- Drugs can harm when used improperly or abused.
- Alcohol and tobacco are drugs too.
- Even herbs can have healing or harmful effects.
In Florida, the primary agency focusing on substance abuse prevention and intervention is the
Department of Children and Families (DCF),
Substance Abuse Program Office.
(http://www.dcf.state.fl.us)
The Florida Department of Health partners with DCF in seeking to prevent and reduce substance abuse and its negative
effects on health. Providing this website is one of many ways we hope to educate the public and health care providers.
Want to Find Treatment?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Drug
and Alcohol Treatment Referral Service provides a toll-free telephone number for alcohol and drug information and
treatment referral assistance. The number is 1-800-662-HELP (1-800-662-4357) or you can find treatment providers in
your area by clicking on
http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/.
Click below to get more information on the effect of various drugs and on resources available for prevention and
intervention.
Information about how different drugs affect
the body (http://prevention.samhsa.gov)
http://www.acde.org/common/Contents.htm
If you are pregnant and have the HIV infection, it can be passed on to your baby. However, there are steps you can
take to help yourself stay healthy longer and protect your baby from getting infected. For information, you may go
to http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Disease_ctrl/aids/Perinatal/PERINATAL.html
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