Brain Chemistry of Addiction Presentation

February 2, 2007

Ms. Ackley addresses the following issues:

What is addiction?
What are the short-term and long-term neurological effects of alcohol and other drugs as they relate to thinking, behavior, and decision making in child protection cases?
What is the impact of different types of drugs related to addiction, including alcohol, meth and cocaine?
How the addiction recovery timeline and the 12-month child permanency timeline can be reconciled through early intervention and early services.
What judges, attorneys, social workers, GALs and others need to know to improve their practice related to AOD cases.

Methamphetamine

Therapeutic intervention for very young (under 2) children diagnosed with FASD:http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2006/fas-kids-can-fully-recover.html

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