Substance Abuse in the Latinx Community
Latinx Therapy
Adriana Alejandre
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode on substance abuse, we welcome Genesis Games, LMHC from Miami, Florida. She sheds light on her knowledge with alcohol abuse, how alcohol abuse is defined, the effects it has on the individual and the family, the myths behind it in our culture & the best way to support someone with this issue. Follow Genesis on Instagram: @themiamitherapist & check out her practice at: www.TheMiamiTherapist.com
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Resources:
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Alcoholics Anonymous: www.aa.org
Smart Recovery: www.smartrecovery.org
For articles & resources check out SAHMSA: https://www.samhsa.gov
National Helpline: 1-800-662-4357
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Latinx Therapy. |
| 0:05.3 | The information shared in this podcast is not a substitute for seeking help from a licensed mental health professional and is not a substitute for psychological diagnosis or treatment. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm your host, Adriana Alejandra Alejandre, licensed marriage and family therapist. |
| 0:20.9 | Welcome back to our first episode of season three. |
| 0:25.3 | And we are starting off this season with talking about substance abuse. |
| 0:30.2 | And the reason why I decided to do this topic with our amazing guest is because it's multifaceted and there's many layers to it. |
| 0:41.4 | In our culture, drinking and addictions are things that are seen very commonly and are so |
| 0:48.4 | silent and subtle that they're hard to miss. So I want to bring awareness about these topics so that we can help |
| 0:57.2 | to continue breaking different cycles. So I'm going to start off with the definition of substance |
| 1:04.0 | abuse disorder. In our diagnostic book that's called the DSM and we're on the fifth version, it recognizes substance |
| 1:13.3 | related disorders in 10 separate classes of drugs, including alcohol, caffeine, cannabis, |
| 1:21.1 | hallucinogens, inhalants, opioids, sedatives, hypnotics, stimulants, tobacco, and other or unknown substances that can form the basis of a substance-related or addictive disorder. |
| 1:36.4 | According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the United States Department of Agriculture, they define moderate drinking to be |
| 1:46.8 | up to one drink per day for women and up to two drinks per day for men. And SAMHSA defines heavy |
| 1:56.4 | alcohol use as been drinking on five or more days in the past month. Now, I want to just briefly |
| 2:04.7 | talk about some main risk factors for substance use, which includes acculturation, language, |
| 2:12.5 | financial stress, and untreated mental health conditions. Now, there are many, many more, but like I mentioned, |
| 2:19.7 | this is an introduction, and we are going to be talking about some of these things throughout |
| 2:25.4 | this segment. Additionally, in our culture, research shows that men drink more than women, |
| 2:31.4 | and the preferred drink in our culture is beer. However, most of the |
| 2:36.0 | research out there is dependent on self-reported data, so there is still a large gap of unknown |
| 2:41.0 | statistics of our people who actually have a substance abuse disorder. I want you all to know now |
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