March 21, 2019 – – Air Conditioning Edmonton is pleased to announce that they are expanding their air conditioner installation and repair services to Spruce Grove, Alberta. The company has offered their services in Edmonton for over a decade and now plans to begin servicing Spruce Grove homes. Visit the company’s site at https://sites.google.com/view/air-conditioning-edmonton/home.

2008 saw Air Conditioning Edmonton join Plumber’s Success International. The company strives to provide the best air conditioning, heating, and plumbing repairs in Alberta. “Our primary goal is to meet all of your requirements so that we can create a well-built, sustainable relationship with you and your family for the life of your home,” says the company. “We back up that goal with dependable, responsible, and premium services, and unmatched dedication and passion that sets us apart from our competition.” The company cares about their client’s homes just as much as they do, and works to ensure that their clients are as comfortable as possible in their homes.

To maximize the cooling effect, it is important to install the right air conditioning system. For homes that only require a single AC unit, it is important to have the right one installed. If the unit is too powerful, it will consume too much electricity, while an underpowered air conditioner will have trouble maintaining cooling levels. Air Conditioning Edmonton offers customers its experience and knowledge to save them the trouble of selecting a specific AC model or central cooling system, and is able to suggest the best system for each individual client’s property.

“We will handle all aspects of the air conditioner installation process, from the wiring and the duct installation down to the fitting of the appliance. You can rely on our quality service to perform a clean and smooth installation,” says Air Conditioning Edmonton. From repair to replacements, Air Conditioning Edmonton promises to exceed customer expectations.

Air Conditioning Edmonton differentiates itself from the competition by paying attention to the needs of each and every client. No one is as familiar with a particular house as its owner, and Air Conditioning Edmonton makes use of that knowledge to ensure that their customers are as comfortable as possible. “Focusing on your individual needs in a friendly and respectful manner, coupled with our professional expertise, is our way of saying that we care for your well-being and the value of your home,” affirms the company. “We understand your concerns about extending the life of your equipment, keeping energy costs at a minimum, and eliminating equipment breakdowns. Our close ties with many major suppliers give you direct access to a wide range of equipment and parts that are bound to exceed your expectations.”

As the premier air conditioning contractor in northern Alberta, Air Conditioning Edmonton is a one stop shop for all aspects of air conditioning, With a technical team consisting exclusively of authorized installers and products of the highest quality—that are built for low noise and high efficiency operation—Air Conditioning Edmonton guarantees the highest quality installations.

At some point, it will most likely become necessary to replace the air conditioning system in a home. It is possible to extend the lifespan of an air conditioning system by changing the filter regularly and cleaning out the internal components. However, the lifespan of an air conditioner usually lasts between fifteen and twenty years. Find out more about when it might be necessary to replace an air conditioning system at https://airconditioningedmontonca.wordpress.com.

It is possible to simply repair minor issues without paying for a new installation, and Air Conditioning Edmonton offers a number of tips to help determine when a new air conditioning system is necessary. Systems over ten years old, while they may still do their intended job, may be energy inefficient and therefore drive up utility bills. Systems that run constantly or provide inconsistent cooling both need to at least be inspected by a professional and most probably require replacement. Lastly, if the cost of constantly repairing an old system outweighs the cost of getting a new one, it may be time to replace it.

Air Conditioning Edmonton looks forward to bringing their decades of experience and high quality service to the residents of to Spruce Grove. Those looking for more information on their installation and repair services may contact Dwight Gropper of Air Conditioning Edmonton, or visit the company’s website at https://air-conditioning-edmonton.ca.

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Dwight Gropper
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March 21, 2019 – – NJ Roofing Pros, based in Newark, NJ, has announced that they are offering roofing services to all cities and towns within a 30 mile radius from Newark. NJ Roofing Pros have the ability to serve all kinds of roofing needs. The Newark roofing contractor offers both residential and commercial roof repair services, including new roof installation services.

Amy Nikent, spokesperson for NJ Roofing Pros, says, “We are so excited to announce that we are now offering all kinds of roofing services to homes and commercial establishments within a 30 mile radius from Newark. We know that your roof is probably the most critical part of your home that protects it from the elements. The primary purpose of your roof is to shelter you and your loved ones from the rain, wind, snow, and harsh summer sun. Having a well-maintained roof is essential if you want to create a home that is safe and comfortable. We offer a complete array of roofing solutions in and around the Jersey City area.”

The roofing services provided by NJ Roofing Pros can be subdivided into several categories. These are: emergency roof repairs, roof maintenance, new roof installation, roof cleaning, garage roof repair, siding repair, and dormer window installation.

The NJ Roofing Pros website has a blog where they publish articles to help people with regards to their roofing issues. For instance, one article provides some tips on how to choose a roofing contractor that homeowners can rely on. These include: working with a local roofing company because local contractors are more likely to be familiar with the building requirements and building codes in that particular area; ensuring that the roofing contractor is both insured and licensed; getting quotes from various competing roofing contractors; checking with the Better Business Bureau to ensure that the contractor is trustworthy; and ensuring that there is a written contract where the different things agreed upon are clearly indicated.

NJ Roofing Pros also warns about the five common roofing problems that homeowners may experience. These are: leaks; pools of water on the roof; loose, cracked and broken tiles; shrinkage after installation; and blistering.

Homeowners need to be on the lookout for roof leaks because even the smallest amount of moisture in the roof can later result into a huge problem. Most often, this is due to flashing details that have not been fastened in the correct way or the use of improper seams during roof installation. Any break in the membrane can lead to a leak. Also, the fastenings and the membrane may deteriorate as they grow older, which then results into roof leaks. These water pools or puddles on the roof may cause the roof to deteriorate faster than usual.

Meanwhile, loose, cracked and broken tiles on the roof can fall down at any time, which is a hazard for people living in the home. This may also be due to improper repair or installation. It may also have resulted from the usual wear and tear from exposure to the various elements, or it could be due to the tiles being walked on. Once homeowners find some cracked or loose tiles, it is advisable to have them replaced by a professional as soon as possible. And if those cracked tiles or loose tiles are the result of an aging roof, it is recommended that the whole roof be replaced. Or else, the homeowner may find that he has to call on a roofing contractor often as the old tiles start to crack or come loose one after the other.

Another thing that homeowners need to be on the lookout for is water pooling. An improperly installed roof can have pools of water on it because the water cannot run or drain off the roof efficiently. This may also be caused by inexperienced roofing contractors who failed to repair the roof properly.

NJ Roofing Pros offers a free quote for roof repair or installation. Those interested in getting a quotation or would like to learn more about the roofing services can visit their website at http://www.bolesfs.com or contact them by phone or by email.

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NJ Roofing Pros
Amy Nikent
(908) 360-2297
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18 Blanchard St., # 36,
Newark, NJ 07105

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March 21, 2019 – – 9 out of 10 Americans who meet the medical criteria for addiction started smoking, drinking, or using other drugs before age 18, according to a national study released today by CASAColumbia (CASA) at Columbia University.

Adolescent Substance Use: America’s #1 Public Health Problem reveals that adolescence is the critical period for the initiation of substance use and its consequences. The CASA report finds 1 in 4 Americans who began using any addictive substance before age 18 are addicted, compared to 1 in 25 Americans who started using at age 21 or older.

Adolescent Substance Use at Epidemic Levels:

The CASA report underscores the fact that addiction is a disease with adolescent origins. The underdeveloped teen brain makes it likelier that teens will take risks, including using addictive substances that interfere with brain development, impair judgment and heighten their risk of addiction.

The CASA report reveals that:

75% (10 million) of all high school students have used addictive substances including tobacco, alcohol, marijuana or cocaine; 1 in 5 of them meets the medical criteria for addiction, 46% (6.1 million) of all high school students currently use addictive substances; 1 in 3 of them meets the medical criteria for addiction.

“Teen substance use is our nation’s number one public health problem. Smoking, drinking and using other drugs while the brain is still developing dramatically hikes the risk of addiction and other devastating consequences,” said Jim Ramstad, Former Member of Congress (MN-3) and a CASA board member who also chaired the report’s National Advisory Commission.

The CASA report noted that alcohol is the preferred addictive substance among high school students:

72.5% have drunk alcohol, 46.3% have smoked cigarettes, 36.8% have used marijuana, 14.8% have misused controlled prescription drugs, 65.1% have used more than one substance.

“Addiction is a disease that in most cases begins in adolescence so preventing or delaying teens from using alcohol, tobacco or other drugs for as long as possible is crucial to their health and safety,” said Recovery Detox of Federal Hill. “We rightfully worry about other teen health problems like obesity, depression or bullying, but we turn a blind eye to a more common and deadly epidemic that we can in fact prevent.”

American Culture Drives Teen Substance Use:

The report finds that American culture, broadly defined, actually increases the risk that teens will use addictive substances. A wide range of social influences subtly condone or more overtly encourage use, including acceptance of substance use by parents, schools and communities; pervasive advertising of these products; and media portrayals of substance use as benign or glamorous, fun and relaxing. These cultural messages and the widespread availability of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and controlled prescription drugs normalize substance use, undermining the health and futures of our teens.

46% of children under age 18 (34.4 million) live in a household where someone 18 or older is smoking, drinking excessively, misusing prescription drugs or using illegal drugs.

Less than half (42.6%) of parents list refraining from smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, using marijuana, misusing prescription drugs or using other illicit drugs as one of their top three concerns for their teens; almost 21% say that marijuana is a harmless drug.

The report also finds that many teens with other challenges such as a family history including a genetic predisposition, a co-occurring health problem, or a victim of trauma are at even higher risk of substance use and addiction.

A Costly Epidemic:

The CASA report declares teen smoking, drinking, misusing prescription drugs and using illegal drugs to be a public health epidemic presenting clear and present dangers to millions of American teens, and severe and expensive long range consequences for our nation.

In addition to the heightened risk of addiction, consequences of teen substance use include accidents and injuries; unintended pregnancies; medical conditions such as asthma, depression, anxiety, psychosis and impaired brain function; reduced academic performance and educational achievement; criminal involvement and even death.

The report finds teen substance use is the origin of the largest preventable and most costly public health problem in America today. Immediate costs per year of teen use include an estimated $68 billion associated with underage drinking and $14 billion in substance-related juvenile justice costs. Total costs to federal, state and local governments of substance use, which has its roots in adolescence, are at least $468 billion per year – almost $1,500 for every person in America.

“The combination of adolescence, an American culture that glorifies and promotes substance use, and easy access to tobacco, alcohol and other drugs creates a perfect storm for our teens and for taxpayers,” said Recovery Detox of Federal Hill. “We no longer can justify writing off adolescent substance use as bad behavior, as a rite of passage or as kids just being kids. The science is too clear, the facts are too compelling, the health and social consequences are too devastating and the costs are simply too high.”

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667-930-7799
Baltimore, MD 21230

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March 21, 2019 – – A new study published in Nature Neuroscience finds that social interactions can have a profound effect on behaviors related to addiction, and on the brain’s response to drug-associated cues. These findings have implications for people with substance use disorders (SUDs), because it suggests that social interaction can change the activity of specific neuronal circuits that control drug craving and relapse. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and led by Dr. Marco Venniro from the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

The researchers used established animal models of drug addiction to show that when given a choice, rats repeatedly chose social interaction over self-administration of heroin or methamphetamine. This held true even for rats that had previously been using heroin or methamphetamine in a “compulsive” way (like humans with an SUD).

Additionally, all rats robustly chose peer contact over more drug access even when they were continuously housed with their peers. And during prolonged abstinence periods, Travilah Recovery Detox reported they were significantly less vulnerable to relapse than rats that simply had their access to drugs removed. However, some rats resumed drug taking when access to a peer was delayed. The study introduces a novel paradigm to study brain mechanisms of social factors in addiction and could lead to new behavioral and pharmacological treatments for SUDs.

The protective effects of social interaction are more straightforward for rats than for people, but even so, the new findings in rats are in accord with what social scientists have reported for decades — feelings of connectedness to society can protect some (not all) people against SUDs. The rats that are less strongly protected by social contact could be a model for understanding and treating their human counterparts.

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Potomac, MD 20854

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March 21, 2019 – – Chevy Chase Recovery Detox has compiled the best, most up-to-date source of information on alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use and the burden of death and disease. It shows that in 2018 alcohol and tobacco use between them cost the human population more than a quarter of a billion disability-adjusted life years, with illicit drugs costing a further tens of millions.

The largest health burden from substance use was attributable to tobacco smoking and the smallest was attributable to illicit drugs. Global estimates suggest that nearly one in seven adults (15.2%) smoke tobacco and one in five adults report at least one occasion of heavy alcohol use in the past month.

Compared with the rest of the world, Central, Eastern, and Western Europe recorded consistently higher alcohol consumption per capita (11.61, 11.98 and 11.09 litres, respectively) and a higher percentage of heavy consumption amongst drinkers (50.5%, 48.2%, and 40.2%, respectively). The same European regions also recorded the highest prevalence of tobacco smoking (Eastern Europe 24.2%, Central Europe 23.7%, and Western Europe 20.9%).

In contrast, use of illicit drugs was far less common. Fewer than one in twenty people were estimated to use cannabis in the past year, and much lower estimates were observed for amphetamines, opioids and cocaine. Hotspots included the US, Canada, and Australasia. The US and Canada had one of the highest rates of cannabis, opioid, and cocaine dependency (748.7 [694.8, 812.3], 650.0 [574.5, 727.3], and 301.2 [269.3, 333.7] per 100,000 people, respectively). Australasia (Australia and New Zealand) had the highest prevalence of amphetamine dependence (491.5 per 100,000 people [441.4, 545.5]), as well as high rates of cannabis, opioid and cocaine use dependence (693.7 [648.1, 744.4], 509.9 [453.7, 577.8], and 160.5 [136.4, 187.1] per 100,000 people, respectively).

Some countries and regions (e.g., Africa, Caribbean and Latin America, Asia regions) have little or no data on substance use and associated health burden. These are typically low or middle income countries that frequently have punitive drug policies, and may experience serious political and social unrest. These countries need enhanced monitoring because they are at risk of rapid escalation in substance use and related health burden.

The report uses data mainly obtained from the World Health Organization, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The authors note that there are important limitations to the data, especially for illicit drugs, but believe that putting all this information in one place will make it easier for governments and international agencies to develop policies to combat substance use.

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Chevy Chase, MD 20815

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March 21, 2019 – – Sometimes it is useful to show in a well conducted study, from the scientific journal Addiction, something which one suspects could well be true. This study shows that alcohol consumption of individuals appears to increase with the number of friends in their drinking group. The impact of drinking group size on alcohol use is stronger for men than women.

Most alcohol use among young people occurs in a social context, and peer substance use has long been established as an important predictor of alcohol and other substance use among youngsters. Past research suggests that the mere presence of others seems to have an effect on drinking behavior, but most of those studies relied on data gathered from experiments performed in artificial laboratory settings or from surveys conducted after drinking sessions have ended, which are notoriously inaccurate.

This study used internet-based questionnaires that study participants completed on smartphones to survey almost 200 young adult drinkers in Switzerland every hour while drinking in real-life situations, asking to report the number of friends present and number of drinks consumed.

This study reports that as the number of friends present increased, so did the number of drinks an individual consumed per hour. This suggests that messages aimed at reducing risk among young drinkers should aim to combat this tendency. The arrival of more drinking buddies at the college bar on a Friday night may be cause for delight, but not necessarily a call for another round of drinks.

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Rockville, MD 20852

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March 21, 2019 – – America’s teens report a dramatic increase in their use of vaping devices in just a single year, with 37.3 percent of 12th graders reporting “any vaping” in the past 12 months, compared to just 27.8 percent in 2017. These findings come from the 2018 Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey of a nationally representative sample of 8th, 10th and 12th graders in schools nationwide, funded by a government grant to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The annual results were announced today by the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, along with the scientists who lead the research team.

Reported use of vaping nicotine specifically in the 30 days prior to the survey nearly doubled among high school seniors from 11 percent in 2017 to 20.9 percent in 2018. More than 1 in 10 eighth graders (10.9 percent) say they vaped nicotine in the past year, and use is up significantly in virtually all vaping measures among eighth, 10th and 12th graders. Reports of past year marijuana vaping also increased this year, at 13.1 percent for 12th graders, up from 9.5 percent last year.

Forest Glen Recovery Detox states, “Teens are attracted to the flavorings in vaping, however, it is urgent teens understand the possible effects of vaping on overall health; the development of teen brain; and potential for addiction.”

The percent of 12th graders who say they vaped “just flavoring” in the past year also increased to 25.7 percent in 2018 from 20.6 percent in 2017. However, it is unclear if teens know what is in the vaping devices they are using, since the most popular devices do not have nicotine-free options, and some labeling has been shown to be inaccurate. There was also a significant jump in perceived availability of vaping devices and liquids in eighth and 10th graders, with 45.7 percent and 66.6 percent, respectively, saying the devices are “fairly easy” or “very easy” to get.

Forest Glen Recovery Detox points out that the one-year increases in the prevalence of nicotine vaping translate into approximately 1.3 million additional adolescents who vaped in 2018, as compared with 2017. The increase in vaping rates between 2017-2018 also aligns with the recently released CDC/FDA government funded National Youth Tobacco Survey.

This year’s survey shows regular tobacco is still at its lowest point in the survey since it began measuring it, with only 3.6 percent of high school seniors smoking daily, compared to 22.4 percent two decades ago. Smoking tobacco with a hookah is significantly lower than five years ago, at 7.8 percent in the past year among high school seniors, compared to 21.4 percent in 2013.

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