The Real Clinical Side to Addiction
November 14, 2016
Hosted by Tim Ryan
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Episode Description
Tim Ryan, founder of A Man In Recovery Foundation and Chief Marketing Officer of Banyan Treatment Center shares his incredible journey from dope to hope! He will be featuring guest Suzette Papadakis, MS, LCPC, NCC,CGT. Suzette is the Executive Clinical Director of Banyan Treatment Center Chicago. Suzette is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Nationally Certified Counselor by the National Board of Certified Counselors. Since 1996 she has provided care to individuals, couples and families; Suzette is a Certified Gottman. Suzette is trained in EMDR therapy (level 1 and 2) by the EMDRIA Institute. She was a collaborating researcher in the DSM-5. The American Counseling Association has also acknowledged Suzette for her trauma work with students at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech tragedies. In 2016 she was named the best Clinical Director in the state of IL by Who’s Who Honors Edition in Healthcare. This is an episode you do not want to miss!
A Man In Recovery Radio “From Dope to Hope”
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Tim Ryan has dedicated his life to helping others find recovery. Tim’s moving motivational speech, From Dope to Hope (tm), chronicles his harrowing experience as a troubled addict who did drugs with his own son and his son’s friends, his incarceration and his life today that includes his own journey in recovery and his work in serving others. As Tim so convincingly says, “We’re taking one addict at a time from dope to hope!”
Tim also provides the community-at-large with valuable information about opiates and their devastating effects. Tim’s speech informs on the current landscape of heroin addiction nationwide, the surprising effects of heroin on the brain and body, and how to recognize and handle those who struggle with addiction to opiates and other substances.
Tim Ryan has shared his story and knowledge countless times before a variety of audiences, including students, educators, parents, treatment centers, 12-step programs, halfway houses and prisons.
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan had a successful life, then lost it all because of an addiction to heroin, cocaine, other drugs and alcohol.
For years, Tim had great success in business and in life, despite a habit that was forming around “drinking and drugging.” But when he added heroin to the mix, Tim’s balancing act spiraled out of control. Often spending nearly $500 a day to support his opiate habit, his career and relationships suffered setback after setback.
Sentenced to seven years in the Sheridan Correctional Center for a number of drug-related convictions, Tim got clean and sober behind bars. However, “life on the outside” wasn’t working in his favor.
His wife divorced him. His son Nick, who he had introduced to heroin along with his teenage friends, continued to abuse the drug, caught in a seemingly hopeless trap. Six months after Tim was released from prison his son Nick died tragically from a heroin overdose.
Tim used Nick’s death as the inspiration to spread a message of hope and recovery to others, believing that if even one family could be spared the horrors of the disease of addiction, he would be making a difference. Today, in addition to running addicton recovery groups for addicts and families, Tim is the Chief Marketing Officer for Banyan Treatment Centers. He frequently speaks to school groups, corporations and others who care to hear his message. Most importantly, he is the founder of A Man in Recovery Foundation.
Episode Directory
January 2017
December 2016
November 2016
- 11/28/2016: Young and In Recovery; Can it Be a Reality? Listen Now
- 11/21/2016: Technology Solutions for the Drug Epidemic Listen Now
- 11/14/2016: The Real Clinical Side to Addiction Listen Now
- 11/7/2016: Tim Ryan of A Man In Recovery Featuring Brandon Novak Sharing Their Journey From Dope to Hope Listen Now
