State Health Boards Support Findings On Adverse Health Effects To LGBTQ Alaskans [KYUK.org]

When they met this week in Bethel, the state behavioral health boards took a look at the Alaska Mental Health Board (AMHB) and Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (ABADA) report about the adverse effects of discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Alaskans. The boards decided to endorse the report's findings that discrimination brings a higher risk of drug and alcohol abuse and other risk behaviors. The boards think that more access to health and community services could help.   

Thursday was the last day of the ABADA and AMHB spring meeting at the Bethel Cultural Center. On the agenda was a report entitled “White Paper: Sexual Minority Behavioral Health,” which provided background information explaining terminology, data, and laid out the evidence of what discrimination can do for the board members and the public to reflect upon.

[For more of this story, written by Christine Trudeau, go to http://kyuk.org/post/state-hea...fects-lgbtq-alaskans]