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APA Division 50 Society of Addiction Psychology @apadivision50.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hey #APA2026 attendees! Join us for an All Recovery 12-step group at 10:00am in Room 210. This meeting is open to all APA attendees who are in recovery to provide a supportive space for connection.

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APA Division 50 Society of Addiction Psychology @apadivision50.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Good morning from Washington DC! Join us at 10:00am in Room 207A for our first skill building session of the convention, A Disease of Loneliness: Addiction Through an Attachment Theory Lens. This session is eligible for CE credits. #APA2026

Flyer advertising the skill building session described in the main post, with schedule details and a round picture of the presenter.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Proud mentor moment! So grateful to @apadivision50.bsky.social for supporting my research assistant in traveling to CPA. Can’t wait for Kansas City!

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

In this paper, Alexis explored whether substance use, mental health symptoms, and intimate partner violence severity influenced women's substance use and mental health treatment-seeking and their barriers to seeking treatment. So excited to finally be able to share this work with others!

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

So proud of my former mentee Alexis Alfano (now a graduate student with @rschacht.bsky.social), whose first first-authored paper was accepted by the Journal of Interpersonal Violence last night! Also, my 100th publication!

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Merry Christmas to everyone except my spouse who thought I made Wu Tang cookies for our toddler (they’re clearly legs so that the Dino cookies I cut out will stand up)

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Excited to share my first President’s Column for the @apadivision50.bsky.social. In it, I discuss our 2025 theme: The Science of Lived Experience. I also reflect on leadership in a time of rapid change and share invitation for colleagues. Hope you’ll read it: addictionpsychology.org/soap-box/202...

addictionpsychology.org

President's Column | Society of Addiction Psychology

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APA Division 50 Society of Addiction Psychology @apadivision50.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Division 50 is seeking #APA2026 proposals focused on the integration of lived and learned expertise to transform addiction psychology! Submit by January 14th to present in DC from August 6th-8th. Submit your proposal at convention.apa.org

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Nicole Weiss @nicoleweiss.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

📣 New Pub 📣 We captured 30-day emotion intensity & dysregulation data from EMA & examined in relation to cortisol (from hair) during the same period. Emotion intensity & hair cortisol levels were significantly associated among women with high (but not low) emotion dysregulation.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

My 3-year-old is also very proud of herself for trying her first doughnut this morning. She’s been doing oral immunotherapy for a milk allergy since just after her 1st birthday, and this was a very exciting win!

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The best kind of news to wake up to! So grateful to learn that my Loan Repayment Program award has been renewed for a third year by NIDA. These types of programs are life-changing for early career folx, and have enabled me to pursue a career in research (even if it isn’t the most lucrative option).

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Congratulations, Julie!! So well deserved!

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is horrible. You all deserve better, and the work you do is so important - our field deserves better.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This has been such a cool development for us too!! My kiddo loves to be given a “job” to do

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone

latintimes.com

RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction

Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Congrats, Neo! They’re so lucky to have you!

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is so true, but I think it might be a symptom of the larger problem - authors know that they’ll be asked for this or are encouraged by journal guidelines to describe the clinical implications of their findings and have to reach to cone up with something.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Yes! I was so excited to start it. Then that visual hit and I said NOPE and went back to streaming Food Network

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I can’t help but think of the many scientific advances that have allowed my family to grow. I hope that science can withstand this administration, but fear the ways that cuts now will impact the advances my children can see in their lifetime. #StandUpForScience #CSectionAwarenessMonth

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I’ve been grateful that this was an option to save my babies lives and my own life in situations that could have turned out very differently in other moments of medical history. Women’s health (and the health and well-being of so many others) is under attack.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

After my first was born, I really struggled reading these kinds of things and felt a lot of shame telling people that she was born via c-section. More recently, I’ve been proud and grateful. I’ve been proud that I, just like every other mama, laid myself down and brought my babies here.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Shared on my personal accounts, but this feels professionally relevant too. April is C-section awareness month. Every now and then some discussion pops up online about whether c-sections “count” as birth, whether they’re an “easier” way to deliver, and all other kinds of nonsense.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

An important point getting overlooked: When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies. They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Thank you!! Contact napping while toddler parenting is a skill I fully think through cultivating, but it has been such a joy already ❤️

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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

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Rachel Hoopsick, PhD, MS, MPH, MCHES @rachelhoopsick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today. Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

As of last week, I’m on leave for the next few months soaking up all the snuggles I can from this tiny one - work can wait ❤️

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

So bummed to be missing #CPA2025 this week, but can’t wait to follow along here!

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Nicole Weiss @nicoleweiss.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🚨New pub🚨 We examined concordance of emotion-dependent risk-taking in the lab (via emotion induction & BART) & real-world (via EMA). Participants were more likely to drink alcohol, use cannabis & illicit drugs, & have condomless sex during elevated neg and pos emotions 1/

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

My 2yo daughter will whine and cry and then go “Maybe eat an Oreo? Then feel better!” I love kid logic.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

100%…Danielle might be the worst to ever do it (previously would have been Phaedra in my mind).

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The defeat in his voice when he started talking cracked me up. He’s just like …how did I end up with these people. Do you watch the reveals for the people who leave on their Insta though? Everyone is SHOCKED to find out about Carolyn

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I CANT with this group of traitors. They’re all just disasters and are so bad at it. Tonight’s round table was total chaos.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I am recruiting a postgraduate research associate to join my lab at Yale starting this summer! This would be an ideal position for a graduating senior looking for hands-on research training in preparation for applying to grad school. Please share with your amazing students!

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

So grateful to the NIH Loan Repayment Program - just in time to ring in 2025, my federal student loans show a $0 balance. Keeping my fingers crossed for my renewal application to work down my private loans, but having some loan burden off my shoulders is an incredible relief.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I really enjoy StoryGraph! I didn’t know that there was a way to connect with friends!

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I'm looking to form a standing community advisory board to partner on work being done in my lab. Folks who have done this, please drop tips, advice, and recommended readings on best practices!

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I’m so confused - are there people who don’t? Like, intentionally and regularly?

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My spouse was very skeptical when I was planning to read it and said that an octopus was one of the main characters, but I loved that part too!

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Loved this one! This is one of my favorite books I read this year.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This is similar to feedback I received early on - you’re reviewing the paper they wrote, not the paper you wish it was!

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