Thomas McLellan, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, will be speaking on Monday for the 2009 Robert Straus Distinguished Speaker Lecture, “What’s Wrong with Addiction Treatment: What Could Help?â€
McLellan and others in his field are working to develop and study treatments for alcohol and drug dependence, according to the University of Pennsylvania Web site. He has published more than 300 articles and book chapters about addiction research.
President Barack Obama nominated McLellan for the position as deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy on April 10.The presentation will take place from 3 to 4:30 p.m. and a reception following that will last until 5:30 p.m. located at the W.T. Young Library auditorium.
Professor emeritus and founding chair of the Department of Behavioral Science, Robert Straus, and his wife, Ruth Straus, founded the lecture series, according to a UK news release. The event is also being sponsored in conjunction with the UK Bell Chair on Alcohol and Addictions.
The lecture series aims to introduce graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and scholars in the department to research related to substance abuse, aging or cancer and to provide an opportunity for them to meet and engage prominent individuals within those fields.
Those suffering from addiction needs to be treated with care as it takes time to cure patients suffering from addiction.Students fell prey to addiction because some think its fun and style whereas some fell addicted to get rid from education and family pressure.
I think these problems needs to be solved jointly by parents, teachers, social policy makers and students themselves.
The laws also need to get tough to catch hold of the drug merchants.
The laws are already tough on drug dealing. Education is the key to PREVENTING drug abuse and addiction. Scare tactics do not work because most people who try various drugs don’t have a problem with it. All of the DARE type propaganda does a great disservice by painting these dire pictures.
When young people start partying, they see plenty of people who are able to use various drugs and still get decent grades or hold down a job. They then conclude that they’ve been lied to about drugs.
3-5% of the population have a problem with addiction. Then there are the people categorized as “abusers.” Someone else can explain the difference.
Random use of any drugs is not a good idea. Educate yourself before experimenting. Also, realize that some drugs will trigger or reveal underlying
psychological illnesses/problems. Beware!
Great work on everything Mr. McLellan. I am working with a drug and alcohol rehab center that takes a self help approach. Would love to hear more from you, and if at all possible please email me. rick@thelastresortpa.com I think you could be a huge benefit to us, and if you would be willing to help, we would do anything it takes!