Blog week 3 addiction

• Consider trends in substance use and addiction within your community.
• Look for a local news story that address substance use and trends

Post responses to the following items in your blog:

• Provide a link (or photo) to the story.
• Where is your community? (i.e., nation, state, city)
• What is a current trend/issue for substance abuse in your community?
• What are the neurobiological effects, psychological effects, and addictive properties of the misused substance?
• How are individuals, families, and communities affected by this trend?
• What are the current efforts to address this trend? What treatments are available?
• How was addiction presented in media? How would you expand the perspective being offered?

Please note that the focus of this blog is reflection and self-awareness. Submissions do not need to include resources. Blogs should, however, adhere to graduate-level writing and be free from writing errors.

Information for you to write. I live in Erie, PA, USA.

RESOURCES

• American Psychiatric Association. (2022). . In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.). https://go.openathens.net/redirector/waldenu.edu?url=https://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787.x16_Substance_Related_Disorders
• Meyers, L. (2017).. Counseling Today , 59 (12), 3639.
• Capuzzi, D., & Stauffer, M. D. (2025). Foundations of addictions counseling (5th ed.). Pearson.
• Chapter 2, Substance Addictions
• National Institute on Drug Abuse. (n.d.). . Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2020).
• . https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/2021-10/2020_NSDUH_Highlights.pdf