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Wed, 02/10/2021 LAWRENCE – The Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research & Treatment at the University of Kansas will kick off its spring seminar series featuring a talk on community-responsive interventions for addictive behaviors. Monica Webb Hooper from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities will offer the talk at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 19. Free registration for the virtual presentation, which will be held via Zoom, is available here. Hooper is a renowned translational behavioral scientist and clinical health psychologist. Her area of research focuses on the effect of smoking and tobacco use on racial and ethnic minorities. She has focused on developing culture-based and community responsive interventions for chronic illness and health behavior. ....
SMART recovery groups provide addiction services during COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has created new perils and challenges for people experiencing substance use disorders and addictive behaviors. Social distancing and isolation can trigger loneliness, anxiety, and depression. These circumstances have put some recreational users at risk for developing addictions and caused some in recovery from addictions to relapse. At the same time, the pandemic has made it nearly impossible for mutual-help (e.g., AA, NA) recovery groups to gather in person, forcing a scramble to provide remote support through platforms like Zoom. Now, researchers at the Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment at the University of Kansas Life Span Institute have published their experience making SMART Recovery groups available via computer and telephone to the community in Douglas County. Their paper appears this month in the peer-reviewed Journal of Substance Abuse T ....
photo by: Contributed Photo Douglas County SMART Program participants and facilitators are pictured at the end of their Zoom meeting on Dec. 30. Two years ago, Matt J. desperately wanted to stop drinking alcohol. His wife had had enough of his behavior; his kids couldn’t trust him to show up when they needed him; and Matt knew he wasn’t being a productive member of the family. “I was not contributing to anything. I was a disappointment to myself,” the 56-year-old said during a Wednesday Zoom call with the Journal-World. Matt had been to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but they just weren’t “clicking.” Then, an employee from Heartland RADAC referred Matt to a local chapter of the national Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART) program. ....