The quality of life is spiraling down due to health problems related to alcohol, such as fetal alcohol syndrome. Fetal alcohol syndrome can also affect two in every thousand babies born in some reserves, leaving them with a lifetime of developmental and neurological disorders. Education and treatment are valuable tools to assist in the road to recovery from addiction to alcohol. They are also required for families, communities and other social supports. Alcoholism is an addiction and genetically linked disease. It is also a social disease and culture. Therefore, everyone who undergoes a treatment process should be sure that the treatment approach addresses all these factors.
MacAndrew and Edgerton’s, Drunken Comportment (1969), challenge the …show more content…
During this era policies were issued in order to absorb the indigenous peoples in the new Canadian legal framework. Policies forced them to forget their Indian Nation, accessing education, serving in the war, obtaining jobs with enough money to sustain their families and allowing them access to buying alcohol. If they remained registered in their people, the indigenous did not have access to alcohol. In the fifties when the law banning alcohol consumption in the national population abolished, there was abuse alcohol in the southern part of the province. This provision it did not include the Indians who still had the prohibition of alcoholic beverages unless they stopped registration of belonging to a …show more content…
In 1990, 83% of men and women of indigenous descent binge drink. Many health problems were associated with the consumption of alcohol, including liver cirrhosis and accidental deaths, which constituted 5% or more than the general population. A recent study established the great need for education, prevention and control the use of psychoactive substances by 83% of indigenous communities. Treatment needs among indigenous peoples are different from those already established in the general population; incorporation of native healing methods has proven to be an option as well as the application of holistic
MacAndrew and Edgerton’s, Drunken Comportment (1969), challenge the …show more content…
During this era policies were issued in order to absorb the indigenous peoples in the new Canadian legal framework. Policies forced them to forget their Indian Nation, accessing education, serving in the war, obtaining jobs with enough money to sustain their families and allowing them access to buying alcohol. If they remained registered in their people, the indigenous did not have access to alcohol. In the fifties when the law banning alcohol consumption in the national population abolished, there was abuse alcohol in the southern part of the province. This provision it did not include the Indians who still had the prohibition of alcoholic beverages unless they stopped registration of belonging to a …show more content…
In 1990, 83% of men and women of indigenous descent binge drink. Many health problems were associated with the consumption of alcohol, including liver cirrhosis and accidental deaths, which constituted 5% or more than the general population. A recent study established the great need for education, prevention and control the use of psychoactive substances by 83% of indigenous communities. Treatment needs among indigenous peoples are different from those already established in the general population; incorporation of native healing methods has proven to be an option as well as the application of holistic