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Thom Forbes, a fourth-generation journalist, focuses on health and social issues. He developed "The Elephant on Main Street: An Interactive Memoir of Addictions and Recoveries” (www.elephantonmain.com) and is writing "Conversations With Dizzy" with Dr. Harris B. Stratyner, a specialist in co-occurring disorders of addiction and mental illness. He began his career as a copyboy at the New York Daily News and later became a reporter and deskman there.
Date: August 3, 2006
Time: 2:30 - 3:30pm ET
Topic: "Breaking the Silence": Generational Addiction
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A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D. is a psychologist, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia. He was educated at Colgate University, Bryn Mawr College and Oxford University. He has published more than 400 articles and chapters in addiction research and serves as the editor in chief of the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Tom and his colleagues created measurement instruments such as the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) to evaluate a wide variety of therapies, medication and interventions used in the treatment of alcohol and drug dependence.
Date: August 4, 2006
Time: 2:30 - 3:30pm ET
Topic: "Getting it Straight": New Treatment Advances
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Darla Bardine is the associate policy director and family treatment coordinator for The Rebecca Project for Human Rights. She has experience working with low-income families throughout the United States and has worked for human rights organizations internationally. She received her B.S. in criminal justice with a minor in human development and family studies from Pennsylvania State University. She earned her Master’s in international human rights and non-profit management from the University of Roehampton in London, UK.

Date: August 7, 2006
Time: 2:30 - 3:30pm ET
Topic: "The Silent Victims": Women and Disparity
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Patricia Taylor, executive director of Faces & Voices of Recovery, leads a nationwide campaign working to mobilize the recovery community to seek and implement public policies that support recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs; break down barriers that preclude access to recovery; change public attitudes to prioritize addiction recovery and show the public and policymakers that recovery is happening for millions of Americans and their families in communities across America. She has over 30 years of experience developing and managing local and national public interest advocacy campaigns on a range of issues including healthcare, community development and philanthropy. She directed the Alcohol Policies Project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and the Advocates Senior Alert Process at the health advocacy group Families USA. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Date: August 8, 2006
Time: 2:30 - 3:30pm ET
Topic: "The New Activism": The Recovery Movement
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William C. Moyers is vice president of external affairs for the Hazelden Foundation, based in Minnesota. William uses his own personal experiences to “carry the message” about addiction and recovery to policy makers, civic groups, churches and schools across America. His memoir, “Broken,” will be published in September by Viking Press.

Date: August 9, 2006
Time: 2:30 - 3:30pm ET
Topic: "The New Activism": The Recovery Movement
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Sharon Levy, MD, MPH is a board-certified developmental-behavioral pediatrician and an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School; she has a Master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She serves as the medical director of the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program at Children's Hospital Boston, where she has evaluated and treated hundreds of adolescents with substance use disorders, using developmentally appropriate, family-oriented, scientifically based strategies. She is also a researcher at the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research (CeASAR) at Children's Hospital Boston.

Date: August 10, 2006
Time: 2:30 - 3:30pm ET
Topic: "The Danger Zone": Adolescent and Teen Treatment
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