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ABSTRACTAs faculty members, we rely on academic freedom to protect us as we teach, engage in scholarly research, and live as citizens of a community. The American Association of University Professors is the accepted authority in matters of academic freedom, and its guidelines explain protections in teaching, research, and extramural utterances. This article argues that the characteristics of social media and the concerns of academic institutions about their reputation have created an atmosphere that make extramural utterances more vulnerable and riskier than in the past. Some institutions even monitor the social media postings of faculty members and act on such postings, openly criticizing and even disavowing or punishing them for their utterances. I consider these issues and make a modest proposal that may improve the environment for extramural utterances by faculty members.

Background: The rising trend in prescription drug abuse and overdose has become one of the major health related issues in the United States. From 1999 to 2017, nearly 400,000 people have died from opioid related overdose. About 130 people die daily from opioids overdose, of the 130 overdoses, 68% is due to prescription opioid overdose. Overprescribing of prescription opioids by health care providers, coupled with the inability to recognize patients addicted to prescription pain medications has been identified as the main cause of the prevalence in the prescription opioid epidemic. Given the current rise in the opioid epidemic in the U.S., states have instituted regulations and established measures to address its complications. Purpose: This project is a comprehensive analysis of states' legislative and regulatory strategies to decrease prescription opioid use disorders, and opioid overdose deaths. Method: An overview of the 50 states was conducted. Data obtained include policies and strategies applicable to each state. Sources of data include state's governmental websites; review of information representing states strategies and policy guidance; state task force publications; academic articles, state, federal, and local administrative laws. Result: Nine primary strategies were identified. The strategies are classified into three categories: 1) prevention practice strategies and policies; 2) treatment strategies; and 3) harm reduction strategies. Each of the 50 states have implemented four or more of these strategies. States in the southern (Appalachian) and northeastern region of the U.S. are disproportionately affected by the epidemic despite strategies, compared to the states in the western regions. This disadvantage is due to other social factors. Conclusion: addressing the social determinants may improve the scope of the strategies in their effects in decreasing opioid use disorder and lowering overdose death rate in those regions.

Recidivism among individuals who use substances poses a major human and economic loss both at the personal and societal level. Therefore any model of post treatment care with capacity to eliminate or ameliorate recidivism among persons who use substances will be associated with social and economic benefits for the government and the individual. Under modern managed care, private and public sector inpatient alcohol facilities have reduced their services. Thus there is a tremendous need to develop, evaluate and expand lower cost, residential, non-medical, community-based care options for substance abuse patients. This article reviewed varied aftercare services and suggested that the Oxford House Model would benefit Nigerians who have substance use problems.

This volume represents a collection of stories and essays that highlight the importance of creating and sustaining peace. Put together, the contributions here propose that peace can be created and sustained through people's actions. Likewise, some actions could lead to violence. If we can vanquish the vices of envy, distrust, greed, and their like, and if we support social and economic justice and come together in charity, we can intentionally bring peace to our lives, homes, institutions, and communities. If we are socially responsible, we shall indeed work together for social justice, and, thus, create and sustain peace. The loud and deferring voices of conflicts, wars, and terrorism must continue to be drowned out by strong voices of peace. As part of the effort to make peace heard in order to match the voices and stories of war and terrorism, this book collects these stories of peace to inspire the reader to work for peace and join the community of people sharing peace stories

1.Promoting Peace through Mindfulness -- 2.Mindfulness and Peace -- 3.Empathic Assessment Heuristic -- 4.Promoting a Peaceful Generation through Parenting, Education, and Civic Engagement -- 5.Raising a Peaceful Generation -- 6.Finding Light In the Barrios of Caracas: A Peace-Promotion Initiative with Marginalized Youth -- 7.Cultural Scars and Lost Innocence. The Psychology of the African Child: Debasement and Renewal -- 8.Peace Education -- 9.Developmental Psychology and Peace -- 10.Diversity and Peace -- 11.Social Networks that Promote Peace -- 12.Making Humanitarian Organizations/Programs Culturally Relevant for Minority Population within the Middle East -- 13.Violence within Corrections: The Intersection of Feminist Criminology, Peace, Psychology and Human Rights -- 14.Diversity and Human Rights -- 15.Traditional Methods of Promoting Peace in Southwest and Southeast, Nigeria -- 16.Promoting Peace through Religious Strategies -- 17.Truth, Forgiving, and Reconciling: Pathways to Peace and the Context of Refugees -- 18.Forgiveness and Peace -- 19.Social Justice and Peace -- 20.Creating and Sustaining Peace through Storytelling -- 21.Turning Problems into Potential: Positive Social Movement Dynamics -- 22.Environmental Psychology and Peace -- 23.Peace Research by Peaceful Means