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The addiction and overdose epidemic is killing over 100,000 people a year in the U.S. alone, and is changing the lives of individuals, parents, taxpayers, business owners, attorneys, physicians, pharmacists, and treatment and criminal justice professionals.
Attorney Colleen Cowles - author, veteran speaker, media guest and mother with addiction in her own family - combines personal and professional experience to share insight and practical guidance on these difficult topics. Her no-holds-barred approach is combined with common sense and a little humor to give audiences an insider view, detailed solutions, hope and inspiration.
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"Colleen tells all! And she does it so understandably, yet at a pace that maintains one’s interest. What value—the distillation of a field leader’s decades of experience. ‘Helpful’ underestimates the usefulness of this presentation."
Audience
Does your audience include any of the following?
- Parents or others losing sleep over a family member's substance use.
- Community groups concerned about addiction and overdose, seeking ways to protect families and reduce crime.
- Students needing straightforward information to help in daily decisions on their interactions with drugs and criminal justice policy.
- Educators wanting insight into ways to help students exhibiting potential substance use issues, and wanting information on drug policy and its effect on students.
- Taxpayers tired of seeing their money wasted on unsuccessful policies
- Individuals or families being impacted by a dysfunctional criminal justice system.
- Business owners or managers seeing substance use, addiction, overdose and the War on Drugs impact their business, from concerns about liability and availability of good employees to disruptions in employee work hours due to probation and court requirements.
- Criminal justice professionals struggling with implementation of current policy.
- Treatment professionals wondering how to help – or deal with – parents, or wanting insight into the impact of the criminal justice system on treatment.
- Physicians and other health care providers concerned about liability while helping their patients deal with pain, and uncertain of how best to serve patients with addiction or pain issues.
- Policymakers, professionals or students interested in drug policy and the impact of the addiction epidemic and the War on Drugs on the future.
Our Commitment to You:
The success of any event comes down to the quality of the speakers and their connection with the audience. Speakers should make conference organizers' lives EASIER. To that end, we promise:
- Personal presentation custom for your audience.
- Prompt replies to your phone calls and email messages.
- An announcement about your event on our website and social media channels (If your event is open to the public and/or you want publicity.)
- A custom resource page, exclusively for your attendees including slides and any pertinent links.
- A quick follow-up with you after the event, to make sure expectations were met.
- All-inclusive package pricing so one fee covers all. No concerns about travel costs, etc.
We look forward to working with you, and to meeting and inspiring your audience.
For any of these groups, Colleen’s presentations will give insight, hope, and a path forward. Her approach is heartfelt, based on personal experience with addiction in her own family, professional insight into the legal system, and over a decade of research, interviews with experts, and work with families impacted by substance use and drug policy. Colleen's presentations are a segway for needed change, while giving audience's tools on how to escape pitfalls, and how to thrive in this changing environment.