Addiction and Recovery 2022: The Latest Findings from Neuroscience Research_01172023
Information
Date & Time
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Location
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Imagine Therapy & Community
734 Nashville Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70115
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Describe the latest neuroscientific explanations of substance use disorder pathophysiology and interpret Substance Use Disorder symptomology in light of this research.
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Describe and analyze the arguments for and against the conceptualization of addiction as a brain disease.
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Define psychoneuroimmunology and explain its connection to substance use disorder.
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Define social determinants of health and explain their role in vulnerability to substance use disorder.
Educational Goal
Increase knowledge regarding the neuroscience of addiction and recovery.
Description
Research in neuroscience provides an evidence-based and comprehensive understanding of addiction that fits well with the experiences of people needing, seeking, and in recovery. There are several insightful and well-articulated arguments challenging the disease conceptualization of addiction, but two important areas of research – epigenetics and psychoneuroimmunology – greatly advance awareness of how environmental stress creates vulnerability to addiction. This lecture reviews the most up-to-date science of addiction, the current arguments for and against addiction’s conceptualization as a disease, and how the principles of recovery management counter the pathophysiology of addiction and improve a recovering person’s chances of achieving long-term recovery.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Medical Doctor
- Registered Nurse
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Dr. Kevin McCauley is a Senior Fellow at The Meadows of Wickenburg. He graduated from Drexel University medical school in 1992 and served as a Naval Flight Surgeon. Dr. McCauley operated a Level III Recovery Residence in Sandy, Utah and was the first president of the Utah Association of Recovery Residences. He wrote and directed two films: Memo to Self, about the concepts of recovery management, and Pleasure Unwoven, about the neuroscience of addiction, which won the 2010 Michael Q. Ford Award for Journalism from the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers.
Financially Sponsored By
- Imagine Recovery