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Davina Moss-king

Davina Moss-king PhD, CRC, CASAC, NCC

Counselor
Tonawanda, New York, United States of America

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Dr. Davina Moss-King a native of Buffalo, NY is the Founder and President of Positive Direction and Associates, Inc.(R) (2014) a consulting company that also provides educational seminars for medical professionals in the community and closely navigates pregnant women prescribed Medicated Assisted Treatment through pregnancy, delivery and postpartum. Dr. Moss-King is a trained Perinatal Mental Health Counselor, Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, and a Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor and has been a substance abuse counselor for 28+ years.

Dr. Moss-King received her Master’s Degree from New York University in 1998 in Deafness Rehabilitation and Doctorate degree in Counselor Education with honors in 2005 from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her world-acclaimed dissertation “Unresolved Grief and Loss Issues Related to Substance Abuse” was published as a book titled “Unresolved Grief and Loss Issues Related to Heroin Recovery,” in 2009. Her most recent book published in January 2017 is “The Positive Direction Model. Opioid Use and Pregnancy” a self-help book that focuses on the model her company uses to guide physicians and pregnant women with opioid use disorder/substance use disorders to have a successful pregnancy as well as delivery.

Dr. Moss-King’s research interests are opioid use, the medical – patient relationship to reduce stigma and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. She has written an international accredited on-line course for NetCE titled “Opioid Dependence during Pregnancy” (2015, rev. 2017), along with an article entitled Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome – the Negative Effects on Our Future” (2015) in the WNY Family Magazine. She has also been a contributing author in Substance Abuse Counseling: Theory and Practice, 5th Edition and 4th Edition (2017, 2013) by Smith and Stevens.

Dr. Moss-King a current member of the Trustee Board for Mount Saint Mary Academy, Dr. Moss-King is a friend of the Board of Directors for the Erie County Council for the Prevention of Alcohol and Substance Abuse. and a former member of the University at Buffalo’s School of Management Alumni Board for the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership along with a former board member of the North Towns Boys and Girls Club. Current member of the NYSDOH AIDS Institute Women Who Use Drugs Committee.