Expert on addiction, recovery & intervention
Program Titles
- Substance Abuse / Addiction is flooding our Homes, Schools and Workplace
- Wasting the Best and the Brightest: College & Substance Abuse
- What is an intervention
- Addiction specialist
Seth Jaffe Seth is a interventionist who has been involved in both rehab and recovery.
Jaffe has worked in both residential & outpatient programs with years of experience as a group facilitator for both adults and adolescents.
Jaffe has also worked for the National Institute on Drug Abuse as a field director.
Seth was one of the featured interventionists on the critically acclaimed A&E show “Intervention” as well as a featured on the A&E show “Relapse: The Sober Coach Chronicles”.
Seth is also a Dr. Oz expert on addiction & recovery.
No one can go back and make a brand new start, but anyone can start right now and make a brand new ending.
About Addiction: There are many roads that lead to addiction. The most common one is when we first get high with our friends, it takes away our fears and feelings of inadequacy and is all fun and good times. When our using becomes habitual, the fun, good times and friends start to fade away as we become slaves to our addiction.
As the pain, guilt and shame become greater, the need to use more and more becomes stronger until we reach that point where using doesn’t work as it once did. In spite of this, we continue to use because our addiction demands to be fed.
When we cry out ” I want to stop using and hurting my family”.
Our addiction laughs, “I don’t care about you or your family, just feed me”.
We will do anything to feed our addiction and to escape from our feelings. This vicious cycle creates a life of suffering for ourselves, our family and loved ones.
The life of addiction is a slow lonely death. The spirit dies first, followed by the mind and finally the body. This slow death brings heartache, hopelessness and tears to those we love and to those who love us. It cannot be fixed nor cured by good intentions, material success or by an intellectual understanding of addiction.
Addiction will make you believe that you’re in control and you can stop using if you really wanted to or it tells you that you can’t and that there is no hope. It will tell you that recovery will never work for you.
Addiction is a liar.
About Recovery: When the drugs and alcohol are taken away from an addict it leaves a vacuum which abstention from using does not fill. We often try to fill this vacuum by substituting one addiction for another; money, sex, food, gambling etc. to fix this uneasy feeling, but it never fixes anything. This feeling of uneasiness will continue to exist until that vacuum is filled with recovery, a healing and awakening of the spirit. Recovery will work for any Addict if they have the desire to stay clean & sober above all else and the willingness and honesty to do whatever it takes to have a life of recovery.
We must always remember to build our life around our recovery, for without recovery we will have a life not worth living.
Recovery offers the greatest gifts possible, redemption and the opportunity to help another addict because we cannot do this alone.
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse reveals a disturbing ambiance of hedonistic self-indulgence and an alarming public health crisis on college campuses across this nation.
1: Half of all full time students (3.8 million) binge drink, abuse prescription drugs and/or abuse illegal drugs.
2: Almost one in four of the nation’s college students (22.9 percent, some 1.8 million) meet the medical criteria for substance abuse or dependence, two and a half times the proportion (8.5 percent) in the rest of the population.
The explosion in the intensity of substance abuse among college students carries devastating consequences.
Each year:
1: More than 1,700 students die from alcohol poisoning and alcohol-related injuries.
2: 700,000 students are assaulted by classmates who were drinking.
3: Almost 100,000 students are victims of alcohol-related sexual assaults and rapes.
The Workplace and Substance Abuse
Today, no business, regardless of its size, type, or location, is immune to the negative impact that this causes. The majority of Substance abusers/Addicts are employed and do not leave their problems at home.
A 2010 study from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Office of Applied Studies – revealed the following information about Alcohol & Substance abuse among American workers:
Among 16.4 million persons reporting heavy alcohol use, 13.1 million (79.6 percent) were employed.
Of the 20.4 million adults classified with substance dependence or abuse, 12.3 million (60.4 percent were employed full time.
40% jump in employees testing positive for prescription drugs.
Substance abusers are absent from work four to eight times more often than normal.
They are five times more likely to file a workers compensation claim.
Use of Medical Marijuana continues to rise which leads to increased chronic use.
According to a national survey conducted, more than 60 percent of adults know people who have gone to work under the influence of drugs or alcohol, (United States Dept. of Labor).
Seth’s goal is to educate and to discuss substance abuse in an open forum with audience participation. This creates a supportive environment that gives hope and support to any student or employee who struggle with substance abuse/addiction.
Seth will work closely with HR to set in place a procedure that evaluates the student or employee situation and give the support and guidance they need to be healthier and more productive.
He helps HR set up discussion groups to openly discuss individual struggles they’re having and to find support within the group.
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