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Community Corner

free seminar

  How to Help A Family Member or Friend Suffering from Alcohol

                           &  Other Drug Addiction

This presentation will address the pitfalls & traps that await lay people trying to help an addicted person:

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  • enabling behavior, manipulation & deceit
  • learn the realities that guide both treatment professionals and others trying to help an addicted person
  • How to make effective referrals & work with treatment staff
  • understand addiction as a chronic illness with acute phases of using & abstinence
  • Learn what finally motivates patients to enter into long term recovery

Presenters:

Stephen Jay Levy, Ph.D. Psychologist. Author, clinician, founding Director Nyack Recovery Center Inpatient Unit; Clinical Director, Rockland County Crack Cocaine Program; Program Director, Dual Diagnosis Unit, Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital; Adjunct faculty St. Thomas Aquinas College

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Paul Maide, CASAC. Certified Alcohol & Substance Abuse Counselor, Co-therapist with Dr. Levy in private practice therapy group for addicted patients. Intervention Specialist.

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