Community Awareness Program
Understanding Addiction
And teaching individuals how they can change the course of this fatal disease
Featuring nationally and internationally recognized speaker Janina Kean. Kean introduced treatment for opiate addiction in China's opiate triangle of the world-the Yuan Provence. She taught treatment for alcohol addiction in Saint Petersburg, Russia and converted a 12-Step treatment program in the United States into an evidence based medical model for Substance Use disorder.
Friday, October 25
Explores how stigma and barriers to treatment prevent those with addiction from getting well. Jean will also define co-occurring psychiatric disorders and evidence-based treatment.
*Snacks will be provided*
Saturday, October 26
Examines how a family interacts and then becomes out of control when a loved one suffers from addiction and co-occurring psychiatric disorders.
*Lunch will be provided*
Saturday Oct 26, 2019
10:00 AM - 2:30 PM EDT
Friday, October 25, 5-8 p.m.
Saturday, October 26, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Ayers Classroom, 56 Centre Street
Free
Brian Lenane, lenaneb@npsk.org, 508-228-7285 x1571
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