Substance Abuse Among Older AdultsBrown University’s five week Elderly Substance Abuse long distance learning course commences October 20, 2008.
See the Brown University Distance Learning Program Course
Calendar web page.
The
Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England and
Brown University Distance Learning Program Brown University Distance Learning Program are offering a credited, on-line course on substance abuse among older adults.
When we think of alcohol or other drug abuse we usually think of adolescents and young adults, but awareness is growing that the elderly also suffer from abuse of alcohol and other drugs. A significant percentage of the population aged sixty-five and older suffers from a problem involving alcohol or other drug abuse. Such older substance abusers place even greater burdens on the health care system than do younger abusers, yet less attention is focused on their needs. This course will introduce the student to what is known about these problems in older adults. Topics to be addressed will include the epidemiology of substance abuse in the elderly, early onset versus late onset problems, issues in screening and assessment, treatment issues and approaches and barriers to treating the older substance abuser.
This course begins on October 20, 2008, and will run for 5 weeks. The required time commitment is two hours per week (10 contact hours). There are
no real time events associated with this course. All course material will be posted on the Internet.
The total cost of this course is $60.00 (US) the course payment is due by October 20, 2008. Refund requests will be honored until the posting of the second lesson (October 27, 2008), after which there will be no refunds. For additional information regarding this course offering, as well as a link to the Brown Distance Learning course '368 Elderly Substance Abuse' registration page, please read the
Official Course Announcement.
To register for this course please log in or create your account, then click the 'Enroll in a New Course' link at the bottom of your account page. Then select the course you wish to enroll into and click the enroll button. Having enrolled into the course you will be prompted for payment. You may make your payment online. For payment information, see the
payment policies page.
The course instructor, David F. Duncan, is President of Duncan & Associates, a consulting firm providing consultation on research design and data collection for behavioral and policy studies. He is also Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health at Brown University School of Medicine and a member of the core faculty of Brown's postdoctoral program in clinical psychology, addiction studies, and psychopharmacology. His education included an undergraduate major in psychology, with minors in sociology and education at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and graduate work in criminology at Sam Houston State University in Texas. He earned the degree of Doctor of Public Health from the University of Texas at Houston with an interdisciplinary program in behavioral sciences, epidemiology, biostatistics, and program and policy evaluation. He earned a postdoctoral diploma in alcoholism early intervention and treatment effectiveness research from Brown University.
