Melissa Schick

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

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!

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!

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)

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...

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

📣 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.

Most of the crew @istss.bsky.social (@nicoleweiss.bsky.social @hodiana.bsky.social @reina-kiefer.bsky.social) plus a few of our alum (@melissarschick.bsky.social and @atobar.bsky.social)

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!

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).

Congratulations, Julie!! So well deserved!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I’d like to be added please!

Congratulations, Reagan!!!

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.

Baby wearing is the greatest!

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

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.

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.

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 ❤️

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