Please join

David L. Rosenbloom, PhD, Director, Join Together

Representative Steven M. Costantino, Chairman, House Committee on Finance (Invited)

Craig Stenning, Director, Rhode Island Department of Mental Health, Retardation & Hospitals

John Femino, MD, President, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Rhode Island Chapter

Brian J. Zink, MD, Chief of Emergency Medicine at Lifespan and The Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Dale Klatzker, PhD, President/CEO, The Providence Center

Sol Rodriguez, Executive Director, OpenDoors Rhode Island

Nick Zaller, PhD, Project Lead, Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap Initiative

for the release of the Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap Coalition’s Report and Recommendations to help close the addiction treatment gap in Rhode Island.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

10:00 AM

The Providence Center

530 North Main Street - 3rd Floor Community Room

Providence, Rhode Island

Today only 1 in 8 Rhode Islanders with an alcohol or drug addiction are getting the treatment and care they need to successfully fight their disease.  The health care, prison, and governmental costs related to the tens of thousands of Rhode Islanders with untreated addiction are growing.  Treatment works — expanding access to addiction treatment will produce significant societal and other savings.  Please join us as we unveil the Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap Coalition’s Report and Recommendations to improve the quality, access, and efficiency of Rhode Island’s substance use treatment system.