Dartmouth Events

Hidden in Plain Sight: Alcohol, Addiction, Mental Illness, and Missed Diagnoses

Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Seminar: 6:00 to 7:00 P.M. EST
Location: Zoom

Former NH Supreme Court Chief Justice John T. Broderick, Jr. is on a mission to
change our mental health system. By sharing his family’s hard-won knowledge
about mental illness, he hopes to leverage their feelings of shame, guilt,
stigma, and isolation to heighten awareness of how addiction can mask mental
illness.

Join Dartmouth’s Prof. Elizabeth Carpenter-Song and Dr. Manish K. Mishra in
discussion with John T. Broderick, Jr. exploring the relationships among
addiction, treatable mental illness, and new approaches to care.

Open to all who are interested in this topic or the medical humanities.

Advanced registration required: dartgo.org/e57jan23

Our guest speaker is
John T. Broderick, Jr.
Senior Director of External Affairs, Dartmouth Health
Former Chief Justice of the NH Supreme Court

Dartmouth-Health’s R.E.A.C.T. Mental Health Awareness Campaign provides
individuals throughout New Hampshire and Vermont with tips about how to deal
with signs of emotional suffering and with resources for support and help.

The R.E.A.C.T campaign was developed to provide clear next steps to take when
someone sees some, or all, of the 5 Signs of emotional suffering in another
person. R.E.A.C.T supplements the 5 Signs campaign developed by Barbara Van
Dahlen of Change Direction. The idea for the 5 Signs was modeled on the theory
that, like knowing the 5 Signs of a heart attack or stroke, we should all know
the 5 Signs of emotional distress; and when we see those signs we should take
action.

Led by Dartmouth-Health Senior Director of External Affairs John Broderick,
formerly the Chief Justice of the NH Supreme Court, and in collaboration with
the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Health, the New Hampshire Department of
Education, the Vermont Agency of Education and other agencies and civic leaders
across both states, Broderick has been reaching out to students, educators,
parents, businesses and communities, to change the conversation on mental
health and to help reduce stigma.

Broderick believes that “we have the ability to change the culture and the
way mental health is viewed.” He wants to spread this message to as many
students, educators, parents, businesses and communities as he can.

Recommended pre-readings:

Backroads and Highways: My Journey to Discovery on mental Health Broderick
(2022)

Growing concern over medical students’ excessive drinking, Owens (2018)

Burnout and Alcohol Abuse/Dependence Among U.S. Medical Students - PubMed
(nih.gov) Jackson et al. (2016)

Dartmouth Health Care Foundations

Eric Eichler D’57 Foundations in Medicine and Humanities Seminar Series

Each month, experts from the Arts, Sciences, Humanities, and global leaders
will guide you to think holistically and creatively about healthcare using a
humanistic approach.

Learn more: https://dartgo.org/eichlerseminars