No Escape: What SUDs and Neuroscience Teach Us About Living Our Best Lives

When
03/14/2025
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location
Children's Services Council 2300 High Ridge Road Boynton Beach, FL 33426

Registration

Members – $25.00
Non Members – $45.00
Sponsor

No Escape: What SUDs and Neuroscience Teach Us About Living Our Best Lives

Judith Grisel, Ph.D

Description:

To be human is to be discontent. For as long as we’ve been on the planet, human beings have sought ways to dodge unpleasant experiences and improve lackluster ones. This tendency is responsible for all addictions, but is also the catalyst for many of our greatest achievements. Explore the evolutionary imperative that fosters “using”, as well as its benefits and costs, with Judy Grisel, a person in long-term recovery as well as a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Bucknell University.

Learning Objectives:

Illustrate how the brain ensures discontentedness to promote wellbeing
Describe how addictive substances, as well as process addictions like overeating, gambling, or compulsive use of pornography, exploit and undermine brain circuits that are critical for a successful life
Understand what the pandemic of ‘using’ has to teach us about coping effectively with suffering
Brainstorm ways to help ourselves, and our clients, realize flourishing lives, even in the midst of pervasive angst

CEU Workshop Agenda

11:00 am Registration and networking
11:30 am Self-introductions
Noon Presentation starts
12:45 pm Lunch and networking
1:15 pm Presentation continues
2:15 pm Workshop ends

2.0 General CEU Hours

Judith Grisel, Ph.D

Judy’s research on the use and abuse of recreational drugs began during adolescence. After hitting bottom and getting clean and sober in her twenties, she wondered “Why me?”. On her journey to answer that question, she went on to earn a doctorate and is now an internationally recognized behavioral neuroscientist and a professor of psychology at Bucknell University with expertise in pharmacology and genetics. In 2019 Judy published a bestselling book Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction, which has since garnered a worldwide audience.