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Dental Well Being Committee Administrator

The Missouri Dental Association (MDA) is seeking a Dental Well Being Committee Administrator to perform contracted services associated with the MDA and State of Missouri’s impaired practitioner program for dentists and dental hygienists. The Dental Well Being Program is established through Missouri state statute and defined in rule: 20-CSR2110-3.010-3.040.

 

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Adolescents
Understanding and Addressing Prescription Drug Abuse Among Adolescents Print E-mail
Feature Articles - Adolescents
Written by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)   
Wednesday, 03 June 2009 13:54

Imagine the teenager who walks into his parent’s bathroom looking for ibuprofen (e.g., Advil) for a headache. As he’s scanning the shelves, he sees a pill bottle labeled “hydrocodone” (or Vicodin). Something seems familiar about this—oh yeah, some kids at a party last weekend were raving about how great these pills made them feel. The teen takes two, hoping his mother won’t notice—which she may not since they were prescribed six months ago following dental surgery.

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Treating Depression and Addiction in Young Adults Print E-mail
Feature Articles - Adolescents
Written by Gabrielle Pelicci, PhD   
Wednesday, 03 June 2009 13:50

John has been a resident at Sober College three times in the past three years for addiction treatment. Prior to that, he was a client of five other facilities, including a long-term therapeutic boarding school. John has been on depression medication for several years, and despite the excellent care he has received, he has relapsed a dozen times and attempted suicide twice.

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Addictive Disease in Adolescence - a 40-Year Addiction Perspective Print E-mail
Feature Articles - Adolescents
Written by David E. Smith, MD, FASAM, FAACT   
Wednesday, 03 June 2009 13:16

My career in Addiction Medicine began more than 40 years ago when I founded the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic during the “Summer of Love” following my training at the University of California at San Francisco. As “Young Doctor Smith,” I dealt with young people who came for the Bay Area counterculture seeking “Drugs, Sex and Rock & Roll” and “Better Living through Chemistry,” only to see my neighborhood go from fantasy of psychedelics to a nightmare of speed. We dealt primarily with bad trips and methamphetamine psychosis with its associated medical and psychiatric problems (Brokaw, 2008; Owen, 2006).

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Why Are Adolescents Violent? Print E-mail
Feature Articles - Adolescents
Written by James Garbarino, PhD   
Friday, 11 July 2008 16:59
How can we best approach the question, “Why are adolescents violent?” To do so effectively, we need a perspective on human development that begins with the realization that there are few hard and fast simple rules about how human beings develop; complexity is the rule rather than the exception.

Rarely, if ever, is there a simple cause-effect relationship that works the same way with all people in every situation. Rather, we find that the process of cause and effect depends upon the child as a set of biological and psychological systems, set within the various social, cultural, political and economic systems that constitute the context in which developmental phenomena are occurring.
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Group Counseling for Adolescents: Is it Harmful or Effective? Print E-mail
Feature Articles - Adolescents
Friday, 31 March 2006 16:00

Group therapy has been the most commonly employed treatment modality for adolescents with substance use disorders (SUD). Evidence has been accumulating in support for the efficacy of diverse forms of group therapy that have been utilized with adolescents, such as 12-step (Winters et al., 2000), psychoeducation (Kaminer et al., 2002) and cognitive behavioral therapy (Dennis et al., 2004; Kaminer et al., 1998; 2002; Waldron et al., 2001). However, it has been argued that aggregation of youths who display problem behavior in group interventions may, under some conditions, produce clinically induced negative effects on all participants (Dishion et al., 1999).

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Evidence-Based Treatment for Adolescents with Co-Occurring Disorders Print E-mail
Feature Articles - Adolescents
Tuesday, 03 January 2006 16:00
Increasingly, clinicians, therapists, state and local authorities, and adolescent substance abuse and mental health facilities are being asked to utilize evidence-based practices when working with adolescents with co-occurring disorders. It is incumbent upon these practitioners to understand the reasons for utilizing these practices, and to decide whether they are feasible for all adolescents with co-occurring disorders.
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Successful Treatment for Adolescent Girls with Substance Abuse and Depression Print E-mail
Feature Articles - Adolescents
Sunday, 31 July 2005 16:00

It is important for clinicians, therapists, substance abuse counselors, mental health workers, and criminal justice workers who are encountering and working with adolescent girls who present with comorbid disorders to recognize and address several issues to ensure these girls will achieve success in treatment.

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The Impact of Addiction on Psychosocial Development - Treating Early Onset Substance Abusers Print E-mail
Feature Articles - Adolescents
Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:00

Research seems to indicate that early substance use is predictive of more severe abuse later on. Though most research studies have only looked at the youth group between 8th and 12th grades, regarding first use, continued use, etc., anecdotal information from treatment professionals indicates that many children first use alcohol, tobacco, or drugs during preadolescence. Some report being exposed even earlier.

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The Urgent Need for Continuing Care With Adolescents: Recent Research and Recommendations Print E-mail
Feature Articles - Adolescents
Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:00

There has been dramatic growth in the study and treatment of adolescent substance use disorders in the past decade. Accumulating clinical experience and research findings reveal the critical need for more rigorous approaches to post-treatment continuing care services for adolescents (White & Godley, 2003). This article: 1) provides a brief summary of the available data relevant to the continuing care needs of adolescents, 2) describes the Assertive Continuing Care (ACC) model and its preliminary outcomes, and 3) offers recommendations related to the future of continuing care services for adolescents treated for substance abuse and substance dependence.

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