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By: Christopher Schmoutz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience
LARC Blog
The following resources are prepared by members of the Louisiana Addiction Research Center. We encourage you to share this valuable information with others via email and social media.
Holiday Season Support
Although the holidays are seen as a time of jubilation, they can bring on additional stresses and situations that may make individuals more susceptible to addiction. To raise awareness of these issues, LARC invites you to learn more through our informative “holidays and addiction” blog posts.
Substance Use during the Holidays
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Finding Joy in the Holidays
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By: Laura Alderman, LPC-S, LMFT, NCC, serves as the Research and Development Project Coordinator for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine