April 24, 2025

Opiate Addiction: Strategies for Creating Long-Term Sobriety

This webinar addresses specific barriers to sobriety experienced by those with an opiate addiction, as well as several effective strategies for helping them obtain long-term recovery and sobriety. Attendees will learn ways to increase treatment effectiveness with this population and reduce the likelihood that a client with an opiate addiction will leave treatment prematurely.
April 24, 2025

Viewing Recovery Through a Trauma-Informed & Gender Responsive Lens

This webinar explores the connection between gender, trauma, and addiction by using a trauma-informed and gender responsive lens. It seeks to address the specific needs of trauma survivors by helping them break free of the shame and stigma associated with relapse. The goal is to provide an approach that allows “women to feel safe, connected, and empowered to thrive and flourish on their limitless journey toward healing and wholeness.”
April 23, 2025

The Psychology and Neuroscience of Gambling Addiction

In this presentation, Dr. Luke Clark, Director of the Centre for Gambling Research at UBC, will consider the modern conceptualization of pathological gambling (or Gambling Disorder) as a behavioural addiction. After briefly reviewing diagnosis and prevalence, the talk will focus on the distorted styles of thinking that occur during gambling, and their neurobiological basis in terms of brain chemistry and the brain reward system.