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Using Business Skills to Fight Addiction
Tracie Dodson, Kelly Sharp

Last modified: 2018-10-30

Abstract


For the past several years, the drug epidemic has grown at an alarming rate and has had significant impacts both nationally and locally.  In West Virginia, the nation’s per capita leader in overdose fatalities, more people die annually from drug overdoses than from car accidents.  While Business Schools and their faculty and students may not be able to have a direct impact on the drug epidemic, there are ways to make an impact using business-related knowledge, skills, and abilities.  This presentation will focus on how to transfer business knowledge, and the associated soft skills, to meet the needs of local residents in active recovery.  Specific areas covered will include understanding the problem, creating relationships, conducting a needs analysis, determining direction (based on identified need and capacity), designing the curriculum, administration of workshops, program evaluation, and reflection.  While the information presented will be based on a single institution and partner-program, the presentation will provide enough data for replication on other campuses.


Keywords


Business, Project-Based, Addiction Recovery