Courses meeting Virginia Requirement: Prevention

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Ending Discrimination Against People With Mental and Substance Use Disorders-Summary-Understanding Stigma 3 credits

Improving the lives of people with mental and substance use disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of...

Education (Client, Family, and Community)

Application to Practice

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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...

Treatment Knowledge

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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...

Service Coordination

Treatment Knowledge

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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...

Service Coordination

Treatment Knowledge

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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...

Understanding Addiction

Prevention

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Reading-Based Online

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...

Application to Practice

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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...

Education (Client, Family, and Community)

Prevention

Professional Readiness

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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...

Understanding Addiction

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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...

Treatment Knowledge

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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...

Treatment Knowledge

Prevention

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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