Davina Moss-King, PhD, CRC, CASAC, NCC, is the founder and President of Positive Direction and Associates, Inc., a consulting company that provides educational seminars for medical professionals in the community. Dr. Moss-King is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, and a Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor and has been a substance abuse counselor for more than 25 years. She received her Master’s Degree in Deafness Rehabilitation from New York University in 1998 and Doctorate degree with honors in Counselor Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2005. Her dissertation was published as a book, Unresolved Grief and Loss Issues Related to Heroin Recovery, in 2009. In 2017, she published another book, The Positive Direction Model: Opioid Use and Pregnancy, which discusses a care model for pregnant women with opioid use disorder to ensure a successful pregnancy and delivery.

Dr. Moss-King’s research interests include opioid use, the medical-patient relationship, and neonatal abstinence syndrome. She has written articles and continuing education courses and has also been a contributing author in three academic text books. Dr. Moss-King has been an adjunct professor at Canisius College’s Counselor Education and Human Services Department since 2010 and is a member of the American Psychological Association and the National Association of Neonatal Therapists.

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