Mr Ryan said the only solution would be a multi-disciplinary approach, tackling not just the health problems associated with alcohol, but also the social difficulties that fuelled abuse.
Autism, more precisely the autism spectrum, is a range of brain disorders that can cause difficulties in social interaction, communication and behavior.
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He gained widespread attention after engaging the rapper Drake on the social network over the difficulties of earning his first billion dollars.
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But despite the difficulties and the social dislocations that will inevitably accompany it, the task could no longer be postponed.
Rankin and her team focused on a a specific type of neurodegenerative disease called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a group of disorders in which patients can experience behavioral symptoms such as personality changes, a loss of inhibition and social tact as well as language difficulties, such as an inability to understand words.
These difficulties - not to mention social differences - make comparison of crime rates between countries difficult.
However, an investigation by BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme highlights concerns that changes to the benefits system - beginning with the introduction of the so-called "bedroom tax" from April - could push both social housing tenants and landlords into financial difficulties.
Highland Council is headed for difficulties in tackling the need for social housing, the former head of the authority's housing committee has said.
Fringed, like most French cities, by concrete social-housing blocks, Lille faces a catalogue of difficulties as bleak as it is familiar: drugs, gangs, joblessness, crime.
When the organisation fell into financial difficulties, a High Street bank, a social enterprise investor and another charity all considered providing aid but the organisation's Work Programme contract discouraged any of them from investing.
McInnis, like other employers at the conference including solar technology provider Namaste Solar and social business platform Brainpark, discussed the benefits and also the difficulties that come with a policy of complete workplace transparency and shared ownership.
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And its difficulties, such as how to pay for pensions and social entitlements, resemble those of the developed world.
Customers are increasingly promoting businesses they love via social media, but they are also becoming more vocal when they experience difficulties.
"Within societies, economic difficulties exacerbate tensions that negatively affect the way migrants are seen and threaten social cohesion, " said the President of Romania, Traian Basescu, calling for the rejection of public statements condoning racism and stigmatization.
Despite our economic difficulties, the United States remains the leader in innovation in many areas, including social media, the Internet, software, cloud computing, content creation, medicine and biotechnology.
Through the power of social media and political advocacy, as well their ground efforts, they have gained a profound appreciation of the difficulties developing countries face and the interests our nation has in alleviating them.
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