{"id":6882,"date":"2016-03-29T16:29:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2022-04-27T19:56:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T19:56:40","slug":"salmeriobamasubstanceabusedisorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/29\/salmeriobamasubstanceabusedisorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert: Salmeri available to respond to President Obama\u2019s address on substance abuse disorders, prescription drug addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/Patrice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6883\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/Patrice-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Patrice Salmeri is director of Augsburg's residential collegiate recovery program\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/Patrice-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/Patrice-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/Patrice.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; Patrice Salmeri,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0director of Augsburg College\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stepup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">StepUP<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ae<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stepup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Program<\/a> for students in recovery and President of the Association of Recovery in Higher Education, is a national\u00a0expert available to talk to media about President Barack Obama&#8217;s announcement to bolster medial services for persons in recovery from substance abuse disorders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When: Salmeri is available until 6:30 p.m., beginning\u00a0immediately following President Barack Obama\u2019s announcement. (Watch President Obama on the White House live stream at 2:15 p.m. EST at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/live<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>What: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salmeri can address the importance of eliminating stigma by:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shifting language used to describe these disorders. For instance, rather than using the term \u201caddiction,\u201d shifting to \u201csubstance abuse disorders\u201d to recognize that addiction is a medical issue.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Treating substance abuse disorders as medical issues, not unlike society responds to diabetes or other chronic medical illnesses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ensuring those with substance abuse disorders can access mental health and substance use services as readily as other medical services.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Call Stephanie Weiss, director of news and media services, at 612.330.1476.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Bio:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patrice Salmeri is the Director of the StepUP<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ae<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Program at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the largest residential collegiate recovery programs in the nation. She also serves as the President of the Association of Recovery in Higher Education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Human Development specializing in leadership and spirituality, and also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Augsburg teaching courses related to chemical dependency. During Salmeri\u2019s tenure as Director of StepUP, the program has experienced a 250 percent increase in the quantity of young people in recovery pursuing a college education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2011, The U.S. Department of Education appointed Salmeri a Fellow for the United States Department of Education\u2019s Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention. In 2013, The Association for Recovery in Higher Education presented Patrice with The Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Collegiate Recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; Patrice Salmeri,\u00a0director of Augsburg College\u2019s StepUP\u00ae Program for students in recovery and President of the Association of Recovery in Higher Education, is a national\u00a0expert available to talk to media about President Barack Obama&#8217;s announcement to bolster medial services for persons in recovery from substance abuse disorders. When: Salmeri is available until 6:30 p.m., &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3231],"tags":[82,849,3636,2231,3832,2407,2703,3831],"class_list":["post-6882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-addiction","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-patrice-salmeri","tag-president-obama","tag-recovery","tag-stepup","tag-substance-abuse-disorders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10885,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions\/10885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}