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Addiction and Substance Use Disorder

Addiction and Substance Use Disorder

Substance Use Disorder affects many people from varying walks of life. Addiction remains one of the prevalent reasons that contributes to youth coming into the foster care system. As a CASA/GAL Volunteer, it is vital and helpful to understand the impact that substance use disorder has on children and their parents.

Articles & Books:

  • Sage Journal: Study on long-term adverse effects of parental drinking
  • Family treatment courts and substance use disorder
  • Frontiers: Attachment theory and maternal drug addiction
  • Marijuana Use and Teens: What’s the Big Deal?

Podcasts

  • The diagnosis & the drug: use of physchotropic medication in the foster care system
  • The effects of methamphetamine on children
  • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Webinars

  • Module one, primer on substance abuse issues for child welfare professionals
  • Module two, engaging families in substance abuse treatment
  • Module three, substance use disorder treatment and recovery
  • Fentanyl, sizzurp, vaping and other current drug trends
  • The juvenile journey from marijuana to heroin
  • The opioid crisis in Illinois
  • Substance Use Disorders and Child Welfare Part 1

Ted Talks

  • Everything you think you know about addition is wrong
  • How isolation fuels opioid addiction
  • Addiction is a disease. We should treat it like one
  • The agony of opioid withdrawal – and what the doctors should tell patients about it
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