Nic sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin.Cognitive learning difficulties even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in california to convince him otherwise.Cognitive learning difficulties in a voice that is raw and honest, nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery.Cognitive learning difficulties as we watch nic plunge the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself.Cognitive learning difficulties it's a harrowing portrait -- but not one without hope. (description from book jacket).

Noel ramirez, MPH, LCSW is a former new yorker and now, current philadelphian.Cognitive learning difficulties he received his master’s in social work from the university of pennsylvania in 2009, his master’s in public health from drexel university in 2012 and is currently pursuing a doctorate in behavioral health at arizona state university.Cognitive learning difficulties he has been teaching graduate social work since 2014. Mr. Ramirez’s professional background and history has been grounded in communities that he is both personal and professionally committed to serving: youth communities, recovery community, gay/bisexual men, people of color, HIV/AIDS.Cognitive learning difficulties currently, he is a behavioral health consultant and project director for MAT expansion for a federally qualified health center, maintains a private practice focusing on gay/bisexual men in philadelphia and teaches graduate social work at west chester university and columbia university.Cognitive learning difficulties outside of his professional interests, noel spends his time learning how to cook, bike riding, listening to audio-books and having conversations about post-colonialism and popular culture.Cognitive learning difficulties

Scott cohen, LSW began his career in a long-term alcoholism treatment facility in upstate new york over 30 years ago. Since then he has worked in outpatient and inpatient programs, abstinence and harm-reduction groups and with diverse individuals at every stage of recovery.Cognitive learning difficulties during the AIDS epidemic he advocated for integrated care of psychiatric patients and the dual diagnosed. Scott has watched with dismay the clash between recovery culture and evidence-based rehabilitation approaches, seen today in our disjointed system of substance abuse treatment.Cognitive learning difficulties since graduating from temple school of social work in 2013, he has worked with traumatically injured patients in a hospital setting where he sees a significant population of substance abusers.Cognitive learning difficulties scott has been trained in a variety of treatment approaches including motivational interviewing, mindfulness-based CBT, DBT and traditional 12-step models.Cognitive learning difficulties he believes strongly that there is no effective one-size-fits-all system of care.

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