Substance Abuse Recovery in College
Community Supported Abstinence
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Although most conceptualizations of recovery from substance use disorders place abstinence at their core, the process of recovery also includes improvements to individual well-being that go beyond abstinence o...
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Better integrating human developmental factors in genomic research is part of a set of next steps for testing gene-by-environment interaction hypotheses. This study adds to this work by extending prior researc...
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In the past 20 years, technological advances in genetics have made it relatively easy to add molecular genetic data collection to conventional datasets. This ease creates valuable opportunities for behavioral ...
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Preventive intervention effects on adolescent alcohol misuse may differ based on genotypes in gene-by-intervention (G x I) interactions, and these G x I interactions may vary as a function of age. The current ...
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This study investigated the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene’s moderation of associations between exposure to a substance misuse intervention, average peer substance use, and adolescents’ own alcohol use during the ...
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Although peer pressure can influence adolescents’ alcohol use, individual susceptibility to these pressures varies across individuals. The dopamine receptor D4 gene (DRD4) is a potential candidate gene that may i...
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Aggression-related problems such as assault and homicide among adolescents and young adults exact considerable social and economic costs. Although progress has been made, additional research is needed to help ...
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For too many college students, college represents the last bastion of adolescent irresponsibility. On most college campuses, drugs and alcohol are widely available, and students are loudly exhorted by peers an...
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As the studies reported throughout this volume make abundantly clear, the college environment is flooded with alcohol and drugs and a student who wishes to abstain must swim against the tide. For no students i...
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As the previous chapter notes, the Collegiate Recovery Community (CRC) at Texas Tech University maintains an impressive relapse rate of only 4.4% per semester, which means that more than 95% of the community m...
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According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, a 2005 survey revealed that 68% of full-time American college students (vs. 59% of nonstudents) reported alcohol...
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Nearly 2 million American men and women are annually treated for substance abuse (SAMHSA, 2002). Unfortunately, as most substance abuse patients will relapse within a year or even within the first few months (...
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An increasing number of adolescents are being admitted to substance abuse treatment in the United States (SAMHSA, 2004). This increase has created a growing population of young adults in recovery, most of whom...
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The Collegiate Recovery Community (CRC) at Texas Tech University (TTU) provides both a safe haven for those in recovery to maintain their abstinence and a social environment that nurtures the personal developm...
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This study examines individual and partner characteristics associated with the perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) in young adult relationships with opposite sex partners. Using data from Waves 1 a...
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This study examined the ability of future certainty—an individual's perception of future stability, operationalized as the likelihood of certain life outcomes–to explain variance in delinquency and school adju...
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Using both individual-level and census-level data, this study predicts the number of sexual partners reported by male and female adolescents from the quality of their mother relationship and neighborhood propo...
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This study examines male-to-female physical abuse within adolescent relationships. Analyses use data describing 603 opposite sex relationships reported during Wave II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adol...