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Debi Kipps-Vaughan; Margaret Dassira; Kiersten Bell – Communique, 2025
According to the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013), an substance use disorder (SUD) involves patterns of symptoms caused by using a substance that an individual continues taking despite its negative effects. Though there are 11 specific DSM-5 criteria for an SUD, they…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Intervention, School Psychologists, Adolescents
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Feng, Siwen – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2022
Smart phones have permeated every part of people's lives in the mobile internet era and are virtually taken for granted on a daily basis. Chinese primary school students are facing a serious problem with mobile gaming addiction as a result of their easy access to cell phones. The excessive usage of mobile games has negative impacts on children's…
Descriptors: Video Games, Handheld Devices, Foreign Countries, Addictive Behavior
Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2022
This is the executive summary for the report, "Road to Recovery: Improving Substance Use Disorder Services in Milwaukee County." The challenges associated with alcohol and substance use disorders (SUDs) in Wisconsin and Milwaukee County are well-documented and severe. Milwaukee County's Behavioral Health Services (BHS) has led efforts to…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, County Programs, Addictive Behavior, Alcohol Abuse
Harman, Jennifer L. – ZERO TO THREE, 2020
The opioid epidemic and related substance abuse reaches far and wide, with many newborns across the country left to endure the consequences. What follows is a unique, first-person account of a "Story From the Field" that highlights the experiences of one mother as she watched her adopted daughter suffer the effects of neonatal abstinence…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Addictive Behavior, Neonates, Mothers
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Leslie, Mykal J.; Sheppard-Jones, Kathleen; Bishop, Malachy L. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2020
Purpose: The profession of rehabilitation counseling has long been responsive to emerging disabilities. To date, however, the profession's attention and response to the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States has been incommensurate with the scope and detriment of opioids and opioid use disorder (OUD) on Americans with disabilities. The opioid…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Disabilities, At Risk Persons, Barriers
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Schneller, Peter L.; Kennedy, Jenna; Kennedy, Jessica; Metz, Zackery – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs in United States costs over 740 billion yearly (https://www.drugabuse.gov/relatedtopics/trends-statistics, accessed March 2018). However, statistics like this rarely include the toll that alcohol tobacco, and illegal drugs takes on family members,…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, Drug Abuse, Addictive Behavior
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Langley-Turnbaugh, S. J.; Neikirk, M. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2018
In the fall of 2015, Northern Kentucky University began a sustained, multidimensional effort to explore our region's devastating heroin epidemic. The goal was to engage NKU's students, faculty, and staff with the community through public dialogue, experiential learning, and research. Taken together, our engagements would contribute to public…
Descriptors: Colleges, College Students, College Faculty, Narcotics
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Pincus, Robert; Hannor-Walker, TeShaunda; Wright, Leonis; Justice, Judith – NASSP Bulletin, 2020
The COVID-19 global pandemic has brought about many changes to our society, which will have long-term effects for our youth and adolescents. Due to social isolation and adverse childhood experiences, there are concerns of suicidality, technology addiction, and school safety as schools attempt to transition to a state of normalcy in the months to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Mental Health
Suchman, Nancy E.; DeCoste, Cindy L. – ZERO TO THREE, 2018
New developments in the treatment of mothers and infants affected by opioid addiction point to the promising effects of interventions that adopt a developmental perspective, occur concurrently with addiction treatment, and target the parent-infant relationship as early as possible. In this article, the authors provide general guidelines for…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Drug Addiction, Addictive Behavior, Early Intervention
Rodríguez, Jennifer J.; Smith, Vincent C. – ZERO TO THREE, 2018
Substance use and alcohol abuse during pregnancy are significant public health concerns. Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a withdrawal syndrome that infants exposed to opioids may experience in the first few days of life. For most infants with NAS, exposure to opioids occurs during pregnancy while they are fetuses. Similarly, prenatal alcohol…
Descriptors: Prenatal Influences, Neonates, Drug Use, Alcohol Abuse
Suchman, Nancy E. – ZERO TO THREE, 2017
Not all mothers who struggle with drug addiction have difficulties parenting, but many of them do. Moreover, evidence-based parenting programs that have proven efficacious with other parent populations often fail with mothers who are fighting chronic substance addiction, perhaps because of the neurobiological changes in neural reward circuitry…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Skills, Drug Abuse, Addictive Behavior
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Sussman, Steve; Leventhal, Adam – New Directions for Youth Development, 2014
Anhedonia refers to the inability of experiencing pleasure in positive life events. It has been conceptualized as a stable yet malleable characteristic and is associated with hypoactivity in the mesolimbic and mesocortical dopaminergic systems. Very recently, it has been posited as an etiologic factor associated with drug addiction onset,…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, Etiology, Addictive Behavior
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Hagedorn, W. Bryce; Young, Tabitha – Professional School Counseling, 2011
This article discusses strategies professional school counselors can use to recognize and intervene with students who are presenting with signs of addictive behaviors. First, the authors present a definition of addictive behaviors. The authors then define and discuss the most common addictive behaviors impacting adolescents, with a special…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Adolescents, Counseling Techniques, School Counseling
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Wilkin, Leslie; Hillock, Susan – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2014
Social work is uniquely situated among helping professions, as the clinical practice is an extension of ethical responsibility to pursue social justice. Whether in mental health, addictions, child protection, intimate partner violence services, youth and adult homelessness programs, or any number of social work services, the individuals, families,…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Trauma, Poverty
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Dyall, Lorna; Hawke, Zoe; Herd, Ruth; Nahi, Papa – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2012
Housework, those duties done at home or in one's community to keep and clean and tidy, is used in this paper as a metaphor for Maori involvement in gambling public health action in New Zealand. For over a decade Maori have been developing their own voice, public health actions, gambling services, research and workforce development initiatives to…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Public Health, Addictive Behavior, Figurative Language
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