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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Social worker, video producer, author, counselor
Location	West Hurley, New York
Introduction	I'm the author of four books on addiction, including Willpower's Not Enough and When Money is the Drug (both published by HarperCollins). For 30 years I've worked in the front-lines of addiction treatment, from therapeutic communities and out-patient clinics to hospital- and school-based programs. I've appeared on national TV and given workshops on addiction treatment for national audiences as well as in Russia, Colombia and Canada. I'm also a Reelizations producer, helping conceive, write and produce dozens of videos, counselor guides, cient worksheets and group curricula for addiction treatment. I led a research project on relapse prevention for The National Institute on Drug Abuse that led to our 5-part best-selling series, Beat the Street: Clean and Sober in the City. Oh, and I've written for The New York Times as well as for public television, including Bill moyers' series Close To Home. I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York.
Interests	leadership, addiction treatment, politics, social issues, writing, researching, presenting, counseling, my children, generating ideas and bringing them to fruition, and much more... (not in that order) Oh, and baseball.
Favorite movies	Like documentaries, well-made movies with good actresses like (in my opinion) Susan Sarandon or Meryll Streep, Sean Penn, etc. Like good comedies too. Dislike science fiction, fell asleep at Star Wars.
Favorite music	Rhythm and Blues, Motown (dancing music of any kind), jazz, my son's string orchestra because I'm so glad he's playing music.
Favorite books	Love reading newspapers and good magazines, non-fiction, Latino fiction, books by Toni Morrison, Charles Dickens, Isabelle Allende, Milan Kundera, and more I can't think of right now.

When you open your eyes underwater, do you ever worry that you'll drown?

No, that hasn't occurred to me.