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Office of Health Promotions
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HIV/AIDS: AID Atlanta is a non-profit, community-based AIDS services organization, serving individuals infected and affected by the AIDS epidemic.
For confidential local testing sites: http://www.aidatlanta.org/testing/locations.shtml
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Birth Control/Contraceptives: Planned Parenthood of Georgia offers birth control and contraceptives, STD testing and treatment, pregnancy testing and family planning education http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
For more information click on: Don't Let Embarrassment Become a Health Risk
What you ask will
save your life,
What you tell will
save many lives.
Get tested. Ask questions. Learn to live.
Be Aware. Play Safe. Live Long. Stop AIDS.
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Alcohol Abuse: The LEGAL age for alcohol possession or consumption is 21 years old. No exceptions. Alcohol is the number one killer of college age students. Alcohol is a depressant, slows the metabolism and alters actions and decisions.
http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/
Check out the interactive body... to see how YOUR BODY is affected by alcohol.
44% of U.S. College students engage in binge drinking.
At one third of U.S. colleges, more than half of the students were binge drinkers during the past two weeks.
College students who were binge drinkers in high school were three times more likely to binge drink in college.
Students in active athletics were almost 1-½ times more likely to be binge drinkers.
Binge drinkers were 16 times more likely to miss class, have unprotected sex, damage property, and get injured than non-binge drinkers were.
In colleges, 88% of all students, including those under the legal age, have used alcohol.
Between 75% and 90% of all violence on campuses is alcohol related
Each student is completely liable for all his/her actions at all times regardless of his/her mental or physical state, even if altered by alcoholic beverages or other drugs.
Each student organization is primarily responsible for the behavior of its members whenever alcohol is being served at one of their functions.
It is unlawful to serve alcohol to obviously intoxicated persons.
Choice (chois) 1. The act of choosing; selection based on one’s judgement 2. The right, power, chance to choose 3. an alternative
It is ultimately a choice. Make sure you know what that choice costs you.
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MADD: Mothers Against Drunk Driving is a support organization that holds an agenda to ELIMINATE DRUNK DRIVING. www.MADD.org
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