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• Archive: Faculty:Kevin McCauleyDuration:1 Hour 50 MinutesFormat:Audio and VideoCopyright:Sep 09, 2020 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.
• Recent Advances in the Pathophysiology of Addiction Epigenetics: a new understanding of heritability of addiction & recoveryThe Overkalix Study and transgenerational trauma transmissionNicotine primes cocaine use (Kandel and Kandel)Psychoneuroimmunology: the Gut-Brain-Immune LoopInflammation and Psychiatric DisordersThe Role of Microglia in brain disease and repairImplications for the Disease ArgumentIII.
• Recovery Management: a Safety-based approach to sobriety Altering Health Disparities by Improving the Social Determinants of HealthProfessional Health Programs: What Makes a Good Aftercare PlanTreatment and “Recovery Literacy”Recovery Management Check-UpsActive Linkage to Recovery-Oriented System of Care (ROSC)Recovery ResidencesPeer-based Sobriety Support (Kelly, Kaskutas)Relapse Safety PlanningUrine Drug Testing (Monitoring)Vocational Rehabilitation and The Collegiate Recovery MovementAddiction Medicine SpecialistsHow Recovery Management informs Medication-Assisted Treatment“Hedonic Rehabilitation” Faculty Kevin McCauley, MD Related seminars and products: 2 The Meadows Kevin McCauley, MD is a Senior Fellow at Meadows Behavioral Healthcare.
• He first became interested in the treatment of substance use disorders while serving as a Naval Flight Surgeon where he observed the US Navy’s policy of treating addiction as a safety (not a moral) issue, returning treated pilots to flight status under careful monitoring.