Category Archives: Behavioral/Mental Health

The Link Between High-Functioning Autism and Addiction in Teens and Young Adults

April is Alcohol Awareness Month NCADD & Autism Awareness

According to the most recent estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, about 1 in 44 children have been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, it is difficult to know how many of those people have Asperger’s Syndrome—a developmental disorder that is used to describe higher-functioning […]