Research concerning the etiology and prevention of substance misuse has led to the development of preventive interventions that are theory-based and effective. One such approach, Life Skills Training (LST), targets key etiologic factors using a...
Neurodevelopmental programming — the implementation of the genetic and epigenetic blueprints that guide and coordinate normal brain development — requires tight regulation of transcriptional processes. During prenatal and postnatal...
Roughly 2.2 million people are locked up in prison or jail; 7 million are under correctional control , which includes parole and probation; and more than $80 billion is spent on corrections every year. Research has shown...
For the past two seasons, 10-year-old Kymora Johnson has played basketball for the Charlottesville Cavaliers. For years, Kymora wanted to be part of a team, and as soon as she was old enough, Kymora's mom, Jessica Thomas-Johnson, signed her up. Kymora...
Research in both community and clinical settings has found that exposure to cumulative interpersonal trauma predicts substance use problems. Less is known about betrayal as a dimension of trauma exposure that predicts substance use, and about the...
Imagine a study that showed that “X” causes a sixty percent likelihood of having an autistic child. But wait……there is actually a study like that, and the sample size in the study is 50,000 women. According to a 2012...
“Not everyone can be like Nelson Mandela. Some of us are just ordinary,” I explained to a younger relative who was complaining about my mother’s challenging behavior and lack of motherly love towards the family. I told her...
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Evans High School in Orange County used to be known as a dropout factory. But since 2007, it’s gone from a two-time F-rated school to a B-rated school – in one of Orlando’s most troubled neighborhoods. Now, the...
In response to a nationwide heroin epidemic, some Cincinnati hospitals are starting a new program to test all mothers or their infants for opiates, not just those deemed to be at risk based on their background. The program is intended to...
The Freddie Gray tragedy and Baltimore’s ensuing riots and murders thrust the national-media spotlight on the city this past summer. Anyone who has seen an episode of “The Wire,” the venerated HBO show...
Dear ACEs Connection Friends, We are holding the first of, hopefully, many chat discussions on the topic of ACEs in Education. The chat discussion is scheduled for September 3rd at 4 pm central time. Please mark your calendars and join...
I spend a lot of time talking about trauma and encouraging people who work with kids to try to see from the child's perspective. Behavior is communication telling us something is wrong. The child may not communicate it in a more acceptable way because...
The county of San Diego is putting more resources toward handling mental health-related emergency calls with 10 new teams devoted to those incidents. This fiscal year, the county is giving an extra $1.6 million to its Psychiatric Emergency...
Super-utilizers are the frequent fliers of the health care system, whose serious illnesses send them to the hospital multiple times every year and cost the system hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Figuring out how best to address these...