Jones Attends Women and Addiction Forum

On July 22, 2014, The National Council for Behavioral Health

Keynote Speakers:

• Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
• Senator Rob Portman (R-OH)
• Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-OH)
• Senator Amy Klobucher (DFL-MN)
• Michael Botticelli, Acting Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

Women and Addiction: Treatment and What Works | Moderator: Redonna Chandler, Ph.D., Acting Director, Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

• Christine E. Grella, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Associate Director, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP)
• Lori Criss, Executive Director, The Ohio Council of Behavioral Health & Family Services Providers
• Trista Froman, Woman in Recovery, Rhode Island
• Georgia King Lerner, Executive Director, Women’s Prison Association & Home

Women, Addiction, and Motherhood | Moderator: Tracie Gardner, Legal Action Center

• Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-MA)
• Hendree Jones, Ph.D., Executive Director, UNC Horizons and Professor in Obstetrics & Gynecology, UNC School of Medicine
• Margo Spence, LSW, Executive Director, First Step Home, Cincinnati
• Pam Tropiano, RN, CCM, BSN, MPA, Senior Vice President, Health Services, CareSource Ohio
• Patricia Sams, Vice President Stone County Alliance for Recovery

The Role of Trauma as a Factor Contributing to Addiction, Relapse & Recidivism in Women | Moderator: Linda Rosenberg, MSW, President and CEO, National Council for Behavioral Health

• Stephanie Covington, Ph.D., LCSW, Co-Director, Institute for Relational Development and the Center for Gender and Justice
• Lisa Najavits, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
• Josiah Rich, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Community Health, Brown University Medical School

Coverage of the event:

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