Genetic Epidemiology of Early-Onset Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders

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Session Summary

Alcohol-related deaths are the leading cause of mortality in adolescents. Unfortunately alcohol-use disorders (AUD) are also the most prevalent of the substance-use disorders in adolescents and less than 10% of the numbers of adolescents who meet criteria for alcohol treatment actually receive treatment. Current treatments for adolescent AUD are primarily non-pharmacologic. However, recent genetic epidemiology research suggests the combined role of genes and environment in adolescent AUD. Furthermore, Research in the role of stress response suggests emerging targets for pharmacologic interventions.

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Faculty Information

Douglas Williamson, PhD

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Douglas Williamson, PhD.
Associate Professor and Director
Genetic Epidemiology Program
Dielmann Professor of Genetic and Environmental Risk
Department of Psychiatry
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio
San Antonio, TX

Dr. Williamson received his Ph.D. in Psychiatric Epidemiology from the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. His doctoral research examined the familial co-aggregation of depression and anxiety in children and their families. He received an NIMH Career Development Award to examine the role genes and environment play in the onset of depression during childhood and adolescence. Evolving out of this work, Dr. Williamson discovered that the risk for developing alcohol use disorders was four-fold higher for adolescents at familial risk for depression implicating a shared risk pathway between the two that had been largely under investigated. He currently is the Dielmann Professor of Genetic & Environmental Risk in the Departments of Psychiatry, Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.

Learning Objectives

Evaluate the role of genetics and environment on the development of alcohol use disorders in adolescents.
Compare the genetic, environmental and neural risk factors for depression and alcohol use disorders in children and adolescents.
Discuss implications for treatment of alcohol use disorders in adolescents.

Continuing Education Credit

Activity Dates: 04/20/2010 - 04/20/2013
ACPE Contact Hours: 1.0
ACPE Number: 0284-0000-10-014-H01-P (Knowledge)
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ACPE The College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This self-study course provides 1.0 contact hours (0.10 CEUs) of knowledge-based continuing education credit from CPNP approved programming. The ACPE universal program number assigned to this course is 0284-0000-10-014-L01-P (1.0 contact hours).

ACPE approved contact hours are accepted for ANCC Certification Renewal (see pages 5 and 6): At least 50% (37.5 hours) of your 75 continuing education hours must be formally approved continuing education hours. Formally approved continuing education hours meet one or more of the criteria listed below:

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Course Requirements

This course is provided online at cpnp.org and consists of the speaker audio and slides. A PDF file of the slides is also provided and access is available to participants indefinitely although ACPE credit is available only through the course expiration date.

Participants in this course must complete an examination and achieve a score of 60% or greater. Successful completion of the course also requires the completion of a course evaluation. ACPE statements of credit can be retrieved by participants online at cpnp.org immediately upon successful completion of the course.

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Target Audience

If you are a pharmacist, nurse practitioner or other healthcare professional involved in the medication therapy management of psychiatric and/or neurological patients, we invite you to participate in this online course.

Grant Support

This programming was supported in part by grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc., Lilly USA, LLC, AstraZeneca and Cyberonics.