Feb 3, 2018
How to Support Recovery and Not Support Addiction was presented
on January 23, 2018, by Dr. Charles F. Gehrke, MD, FACP, FASAM.
The course of an individual’s substance use may be strongly
influenced by family members, friends, employers and others. The
disease of addiction is often poorly understood, and the behaviors
of a person with addiction are often bewildering to family and
friends. Well-intentioned but poorly-informed individuals may
inadvertently enable addiction to progress by shielding the person
with addiction from consequences that could potentially initiate
change. This program addresses these common questions: When all
else has failed, what does work when confronted with a loved one’s
addiction? What does not work? What can others do to help? What
does not help? What role does an individual play in supporting
another person’s recovery process? This program will outline
simple but effective actions for family, friends and others to
avoid enabling another person’s addiction, support the person’s
recovery, and maintain their own health and well-being.
This program is part of the Dawn Farm Education Series, a FREE,
annual education series developed to provide accurate, helpful,
hopeful, practical, current information about chemical dependency,
recovery, family and related issues. The Education Series is
organized by Dawn Farm, a non-profit community of programs
providing a continuum of chemical dependency services. For
information, please see http://www.dawnfarm.org/programs/education-series.
About the presenter: Charles F. Gehrke, MD, FACP,
FASAM.
Dr. Chuck Gehrke is a graduate of the University of Michigan
Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He completed a fellowship in
hematology/oncology and practiced in this field until 1993 when he
changed his focus to the practice of Addiction Medicine. He is
board certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of
Internal Medicine and in Addiction Medicine by the American Board
of Addiction Medicine. Currently, Dr. Gehrke works with Brighton
Center for Recovery. He has previously been a Clinical
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of
Michigan Medical School and has served as the medical director for
an addictions treatment program and for the Michigan monitoring
program for impaired healthcare professionals. Dr. Gehrke has done
consultant work; presented numerous lectures and classes; and
written numerous articles, book chapters, papers and manuals
concerning substance use disorders and treatment guidelines