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Toby Mower Curriculum for the
Prevention and Treatment of Addiction
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Drug addiction destroys lives, families, and communities.  This chronic illness undermines the future of all countries.  This is true here in Israel, where addiction compromises out most valuable asset – our people.
In 2011, generous support provided by Toby Mower enabled Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to embark on an ambitious undertaking to develop the Toby Mower Curriculum for the Prevention and Treatment of Addiction, a new multi-disciplinary program in addiction.  The program set out to comprehensively address a range of addictive disorders including:  alcohol and drug dependencies, nicotine dependencies, eating disorders, co-occurring disorders, and impulse-control disorders, by focusing on the prevention, intervention, treatment, and management of substance abuse and misuse.

The central component of the Toby Mower Curriculum for the Prevention and Treatment of Addiction is, of course, the addiction curriculum itself, a new developing program track that educates students on the issues surrounding addiction and better prepares them to sensitively and effectively address these issues in the field.  The curriculum and instruction serve as the program’s core, and other program components emanate from this.  As such, research, collaboration, and community outreach form the branches of the tree, a tree which is destined to serve as a tree of life as it impacts individual lives by strengthening the prevention, intervention, treatment, and management of addiction.
 
The impact of the Toby Mower Curriculum has already begun, directly touching university students (undergraduate and graduate students), professionals in the field (nurses, social workers, and others), educators (faculty and instructors from BGU’s Department of Nursing, as well as others in the Faculty of Health Sciences and other University Faculties), and individuals suffering from addiction.

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