Course Category: Addictions, Substance Use

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Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults 3.5 credits

Unhealthy alcohol use is common and increasing in adults and is the most common cause of premature mortality in the United States. This study systematically reviews the benefits and harms...

Addictions, Substance Use

Children and Adolescents

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Drug, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction 1 credit

Groundbreaking discoveries about the brain have revolutionized our understanding of compulsive drug use, enabling us to respond effectively to the problem. As a result of scientific research, we know that...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Component Model of Addiction Treatment: A Pragmatic Transdiagnostic Treatment Model of Behavioral and Substance Addictions 1.5 credits

Behavioral addictions such as gambling, video games, sex, and shopping share many clinical features with substance use disorders, including etiology, course, and neurobiology. Yet, the treatment of behavioral addictions and...

Addictions, Substance Use

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The Effects of the Addiction Programme of Probation on Treatment Motivation, Abstinence and Quality of Life: A Comparative Study With Motivational Interviewing and Individual Intervention 1 credit

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Addiction Programme of Probation (APP) created by the Substance Abuse Treatment Commission of Ministry of Health in Turkey. The...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Marijuana Use Among Adults 50 Years Or Older in the 21st Century 1 credit

Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug among older adults. As an older population grows in the United States that has a tolerant attitude toward marijuana use, the dynamics...

Aging, Long Term Care

Addictions, Substance Use

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Mindfulness-based Treatment of Addiction 1 credit

Current state of the feld and envisioning the next wave of research

Contemporary advances in addiction neuroscience have paralleled increasing interest in the ancient mental training practice of mindfulness meditation as a potential therapy for addiction. In the past decade, mindfulness-based interventions...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Marijuana and Teens 2 credits

The concurrent or sequential usage of multiple substances during adolescence is a serious public health problem. These articles look at how marijuana use interacts with other substance use in social...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Facing Addiction in America: Chapter 7 - Vision for the Future 1 credit

The problems caused by substance misuse are not limited to substance use disorders, but include many other possible health and safety problems that can result from substance misuse even in...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Facing Addiction in America: Chapter 6 - Health Care Systems and Substance Use Disorders 4 credits

This chapter describes the key components of health care systems; historical reasons substance use and its consequences have been addressed separately from other health problems; the key role that health...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Critique of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction. 1.5 credits

The Office of the Surgeon General recently produced its first Report on the consequences of alcohol and drug abuse on health, making several very laudable policy recommendations, including characterizing addiction...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Facing Addiction in America: Chapter 4 - Early Intervention, Treatment, and Management; and Chapter 5 - Recovery 2 credits

Substance misuse is one of the critical public health problems of our time. The most recent data on substance use, misuse, and substance use disorders reveal that the problem is...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Facing Addiction in America: Chapter 3 - Prevention Programs and Policies 2 credits

Substance misuse is one of the critical public health problems of our time. The most recent data on substance use, misuse, and substance use disorders reveal that the problem is...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Facing Addiction in America: Chapter 2 - The Neurobiology of Substance Use, Misuse, and Addiction 1.5 credits

This chapter describes the neurobiological framework underlying substance abuse and why clients transition from using or misusing to a substance use disorder. It also explains how these substances produce changes...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Facing Addiction in America: Chapter 1 - Introduction and Overview of the Report 2 credits

The Surgeon’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs and Health

Substance misuse is one of the critical public health problems of our time. The most recent data on substance use, misuse, and substance use disorders reveal that the problem is...

Addictions, Substance Use

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The Opioid Epidemic: Crisis and Solutions 1 credit

This course provides a broad review of the opioid epidemic by outlining the scope and origins of the epidemic and addressing potential solutions and approaches to solve and, ultimately, eradicate...

Addictions, Substance Use

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Focus on Prevention: Strategies and Programs to Prevent Substance Use 5 credits

This course offers brief and practical information that is useful in planning and delivering youth substance abuse prevention programs. Prevention strategies, ensuring a solid foundation for strategies, and ways to...

Addictions, Substance Use

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"I Feel It In My Heart When My Parents Fight": Experiences of 7-9-Year-Old Children of Alcoholics 1 credit

This study explored the consequences for a child of having an alcoholic parent, from the point of view of 7–9-year-old COA. In the analysis, using qualitative content analysis, the findings...

Addictions, Substance Use

Children and Adolescents

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Reading-Based Online

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