Helping an Addicted Friend or Family Member

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

• enabling behavior, manipulation and 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 and 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

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