Health & Wellness   

Please note this course is rescheduled to Thursdays, July 10 and 17.

Addiction has enormous social, legal, medical, and personal costs.  Addiction might be a disease, and yet using is a choice. New data show that brain changes resulting from addiction perpetuate the cycle of relapse. Are children destined for addiction? How do we understand these contradictions? Discussion will range from the neurobiology of addiction to the effects of stress on relapse, and we’ll discuss how brain science informs this discussion.

Please note this course is rescheduled to Thursdays, July 10 and 17.

Addiction has enormous social, legal, medical, and personal costs.  Addiction might be a disease, and yet using is a choice. New data show that brain changes resulting from addiction perpetuate the cycle of relapse. Are children destined for addiction? How do we understand these contradictions? Discussion will range from the neurobiology of addiction to the effects of stress on relapse, and we’ll discuss how brain science informs this discussion.

Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR) are three steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people are trained in CPR to help save lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. Suicide does not discriminate so everyone needs to be educated in the warning signs and to take it seriously. Certificates will be given at the end of the workshop.