Under the Influence – How Hazing Drives Substance Use Among Students

• By: Vishwani Sahai-Siddiqui, MD The Cognitive Quill
• October 8th, 2024
• alcohol use, binge drinking, college, drug addiction, hazing, mental health, peer pressure, substance abuse, trauma
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Chase Roberts is a former student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After enduring severe hazing as a pledge in a fraternity, Roberts began using drugs as a coping mechanism. He described how the trauma from the hazing rituals led him to seek solace in substances like marijuana and...

A Geriatric Substance Abuse Recovery Program

• By: Orah Burack, MA Verena R. Cimarolli, PhD Gregory Poole-Dayan, MS Irene Liu, MSW Margaret Bondy, MSW Roberto Perez, MSW
• April 1st, 2019
• alcohol misuse, drug addiction, geriatric care, mental health, older adults, post-acute rehabilitation, recovery programs, substance abuse
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Substance abuse among the geriatric population is often overlooked or ignored, despite the finding that almost a fifth of older adults misuse drugs and/or alcohol (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 2012), and evidence showing the detrimental impact of substance abuse on elders’ quality of...