National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Inc.Fraser Lang, president of Manisses Communications Group Inc., Providence, R.I., has been elected to the board of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) was founded in 1944 by the first female member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Marty Mann (1905-1980), and has a nationwide network of 95 affiliates. Inc. Manisses publishes Addiction Professional magazine, Alcoholism alcoholism, disease characterized by impaired control over the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Alcoholism is a serious problem worldwide; in the United States the wide availability of alcoholic beverages makes alcohol the most accessible drug, and alcoholism is and Drug Abuse Weekly, and the Brown University Digest of Addiction Theory and Application. In May 2003, Manisses also convened a national meeting of addiction leaders, The Providence Summit on Addiction, to advance a coordinated advocacy campaign. Lang also serves as chairman of the board of directors of Phoenix Houses of New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. and as a director of Phoenix House Foundation of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . 208 Governor St. Providence, RI 02906, 401-831-6020, fax 401-861-6370, www.manisses.com |
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