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BrainLine News - September 2009

September marks the end of summer and the start of another school year. It is also National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month, so we are featuring articles, video interviews, and resources about substance abuse and its link to brain injury. We also feature some inspiring voices — written and spoken — of people with TBI and their caregivers.

The Link Between Substance Abuse and TBI
Why are some people with brain injury prone to substance abuse? How do drugs and alcohol affect a brain that's already injured? This article, "Substance Abuse and TBI," produced by the Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation, offers a comprehensive look at the link between these two conditions and what therapies work to treat both.
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National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Month
September is National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Month. The Recovery Month website offers useful resources on alcohol and drug treatment, community events in your area, and inspiring messages about recovery from alcohol and drug disorders.
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Back to School: Resources for Teachers and Parents

Students often face obstacles when returning to school after a brain injury — from getting easily overtired to having behavioral problems. When parents, teachers, and administrators work together, these hurdles become far easier to clear. Here are a few articles to help parents and teachers smooth the road for their students.
Working with Schools >>
Helping Your Child Return to School Successfully >>
Guidelines for Providing Homebound Instructions to Students with Disabilities >>

BrainLine's Ask the Expert
Have you checked out our weekly Ask the Expert series lately? This month we feature Dr. John Corrigan, professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Ohio State University, who is an expert on the relationship between drugs and alcohol and traumatic brain injury. We hope you will continue to visit with our experts and peruse our archive.
See archive >>

Redefining Love and Marriage
"On a moonless summer night my husband fell nine feet from a sleeping loft to the floor and did not die." So starts Alix Kates Shulman's memoir To Love What Is. Heartbreaking and joyful all at once, Shulman's story opens a window for readers to vividly witness a marriage transformed by a brain injury. The paperback edition of this memoir comes out this month.
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DVBIC NEWS: Newly Designed Website Launched
The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center is pleased to announce its redesigned website. The DVBIC site now offers many new resources for service members and veterans, their families and friends, and providers. If you've already bookmarked the site, you may need to refresh your web browser and/or delete your temporary internet files to view the new home page.
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Five Crazy Guys
"What's one good thing about being brain injured and having a bad memory? You can hide your own Easter eggs!" That's the sense of humor that Gary Hayes, Tom Taney, David McAdam, Hamid Nouri, and Mike Vetter have come to embrace. They all have brain injuries and meet weekly at the Community Head Injury Resource Services in Toronto to share ideas and information about living with TBI - and to joke around. In this six-part audio series, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio goes inside the minds of these five self-proclaimed "crazy guys."
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All the best from BrainLine.
Noel Gunther, Executive Director
Christian Lindstrom, Director, Learning Media
Victoria Youcha, EdD, Director, BrainLine
Matthew Bruce, Web Manager
Victoria Tilney McDonough, Associate Editor
Elaine Phillips, MSP, CCC/SLP, Research Consultant
Theresa Rankin, Outreach Consultant
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Newsletter editor: Victoria Tilney McDonough

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