College Welcomes Developer of M.O.R.E. Intervention Model

(L-R) Diana Sun, Ph.D., assistant professor, School of Criminology & Criminal Justice (SCCJ); Ashley Zantop, MSW, associate director, Phyllis & Harvey Sandler School of Social Work (SSW); Naelys Luna, Ph.D., MSW, dean of the College of Social Work & Criminal Justice; Eric Garland, Ph.D., LCSW, Distinguished Endowed Chair in Research, University of Utah College of Social Work; Wendy Guastaferro, Ph.D., director, SCCJ; and Joe Bartholomew, Ph.D., LCSW, assistant professor, SSW.

Opioid misuse among people with chronic pain helped fuel the current opioid epidemic, but evidence-based treatments are lacking. Eric Garland, Ph.D., LCSW, Distinguished Endowed Chair in Research at the University of Utah College of Social Work, recently visited Florida Atlantic to detail the clinical efficacy and neurobiological mechanisms of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (M.O.R.E.), an integrative health intervention he developed through a decade-long, NIH-funded treatment development process to target the reward dysregulation underpinning addiction, emotional distress, and pain. The hybrid event was presented by the College of Social Work & Criminal Justice in partnership with the Schmidt College of Medicine.