Barry Tishler
Ed.D., MBA , CPP, CRPS - Founder and Executive Director
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The Addiction Education Foundation, referred to as AEF, is a 501(3)c Non-Profit whose goal is to provide public and private organizations education, training, workshops, information and resources on substance abuse, addiction, and recovery.
Our Mission: Addiction Education Foundation is a Non-Profit organization providing public and private organizations information, education, training, workshops, resources, and solutions on substance abuse, addiction, and recovery.
Our Vision: The goal of AEF is to educate and advance knowledge and understanding about the disease of addiction and substance abuse, its impact on individuals, families, businesses, our communities, and society. Addiction Education Foundation's goal is to provide value solutions towards identifying and addressing the problems and issues that relate to addiction and recovery.
Addiction and Alcoholism is a complex condition, a brain disease that is manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequences. People with addiction (severe substance use disorder) have an intense focus on using a certain substance(s), such as alcohol or drugs, to the point that it takes over their life. They keep using alcohol or a drug even when they know it will cause problems.
Addiction and Alcoholism is a complex condition, a brain disease that is manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequence. People with addiction (severe substance use disorder) have an intense focus on using a certain substance(s), such as alcohol or drugs, to the point that it takes over their life. They keep using alcohol or a drug even when they know it will cause problems. Yet a number of effective treatments are available and people can recover from addiction and lead normal, productive lives (APA. 2020).
People with addictive disorders may be aware of their problem, but be unable to stop it even if they want to. The addiction may cause health problems as well as problems at work and with family members and friends. The misuse of drugs and alcohol is the leading cause of preventable illnesses and premature death. Yet a number of effective treatments are available and people can recover from addiction and lead normal, productive lives.
AEF consultants lead addiction education workshops, seminars, provide didactic learning and individual consulting solutions specific to our client’s needs. AEF designs and implements new and/or improved programs and plans that create the pathways needed towards long-term recovery, sustainability, and purpose while reducing stigma and the barriers that prevent treatment success for the recovered alcoholic, addict, and their family.
AEF provides consultation, education services and programs to organizations and human resource leaders, schools and educators, government and communities, to help transform the stigmas of addiction and dissolve the barriers that prevent the ability for a person to fully recover in all areas of life. AEF provides the comprehensive resources and knowledge needed to recognize and respond to the addiction crisis.
The answer to the problem of alcoholism and drug addiction seems to be in education in schoolrooms, in medical colleges, among clergymen and employers, in families, and in the public at large. From cradle to grave, the alcoholic/addict and the potential alcoholic will have to be completely surrounded by a true and deep understanding and by a continuous barrage of information. This means factual education, properly presented. Heretofore, much of this education has attacked the immorality of drinking rather than the illness of alcoholism and drug addiction and the real opportunity to recover.
AEF helps to relieve the community and society of the burden of costly expenses associated with substance abuse and addiction while providing actionable and viable solutions that help the sufferer to rejoin society, those affected, while simultaneously educating, supporting, and effecting change to the organizations and systems greatly impacted by the disease of addiction.
AEF Education Workshops and Programs
