Understanding Adolescent Substance Abuse
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Half of high school students currently use addictive substances. One in eight high school students have a diagnosable clinical substance use disorder involving nicotine, alcohol or other drugs. Only six to eight percent of the total number of patients in need of treatment receive care. Adolescent and Child Psychiatry Chief Resident Jennifer Segura found herself drawn to working with this population, but wanted to better understand the demands and rewards from the perspectives of clinicians and patients before committing to this field. As a way to do so, Dr. Segura decided to focus her documentary project on the stories of six individuals: four care-givers working in Duke’s Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program (AIOP) and one mother and son, who received services there. Featured here is an excerpt of clinician Elise Alexander’s story. To view all the stories, visit Dr. Segura’s website: http://aiopduke.wordpress.com/. In this talk, Dr. Jennifer Segura shares this work in Grand Rounds. Duke University Former Pediatric Chief Resident Dr. Alison Sweeney knew that one of the most daunting rotations for pediatric residents and medical students was the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Few came to the experience as a parent and many were intimidated by the machinery and how tiny the infants were. As a way to better understand the perspectives of parents with infants in the unit, Dr. Sweeney produced multimedia pieces about three mothers. In this talk, she shares this work and discusses how producing this project impacted her practice as a physician. Documenting Medicine is a program at Duke University which provides Duke physician residents and fellows with the tools and training to use documentary as a way to get to know and better understand patients and their families, as well as care-givers. This program is a partnership between the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke and the Graduate Medical Education Department at Duke. Pilot funding has been provided by the Chancellor's Innovation Fund. For more information about the program, visit: documentingmedicine.com/
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