Special Symposium

Brain Injury

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Cross-Cutting

Health Services Research

Military and Veterans Affairs

SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Risk Factors & Interventions for Co-occurring Substance use Disorders in Neurorehabilitation in Complex Civilian & Military Populations (793608)

Moderator(s)

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  Christina Dillahunt-Aspillaga, PhD. CRC, CVE, CLCP, CBIST

  Associate Professor; Research Affiliate
  UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA; James A Haley Hospital and Clinics, Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Service
  Tampa, Florida

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio

Presenter(s)

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  Rachel Sayko Adams, PhD, MPH

  Scientist; Health Services Researcher
  Institute for Behavioral Health at the Heller School for Social Policy & Management at Brandeis University; Veterans Health Administration Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center
  Waltham, Massachusetts

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
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  John D. Corrigan, PhD, ABPP, FACRM

  Professor
  Ohio State University
  Columbus, Ohio

  Presentation Slides
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  Amy A. Herrold, PhD

  Research Health Scientist
  Edward Hines Jr., VA Hospital
  Hines, Illinois

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio

While drug and alcohol intoxication are risk factors for incurring a TBI and lead to poorer rehabilitation outcomes; less is known about how TBI affects the likelihood of drug and alcohol misuse. The focus of this symposium will be on TBI as a risk factor for drug and alcohol misuse as well as the neural mechanisms that may explain these behaviors and potential therapeutic strategies to mediate these processes. A better understanding of the relationships among the relevant biopsychosocial phenomena could have important implications for risk prevention and treatment of drug and alcohol abuse following TBI. 

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion, participants will be able to describe risk factors and TBI-related neurobehavioral sequelae which increase vulnerability to opioid misuse among persons with a history of traumatic brain injury
• Upon completion, participants will be able to recount epidemiological evidence for a relationship between earlier life TBI and adult alcohol misuse.
• Upon completion, participants will be able to determine how understanding neural mechanisms of co-occurring TBI and alcohol use disorder can provide insight into treatment interventions.