A salute to African American Women who have made historical contributions to Substance Use Disorders Treatment and Recovery.
Clara McBride-Hale. "Mother Hale" Founder of Hale House in New York City. Mother Hale housed children prenatally exposed to heroin in the 1960's and 70's, children prenatally exposed to cocaine in the 1980's and 90's and children born HIV positive.
Andrea Barthwell, MD, FASAM. Dr. Barthwell is the former President of The American Society of Addiction Medicine and she served as Director of Demand Reduction at the Office of the National Drug Control Policy under President George W. Bush.
Lonnetta Albright. As former Director of Great Lakes ATTC, Lonnetta helped shift Substance Use Disorders Treatment from the acute care model solely, towards a recovery oriented system of care. Under her leadership Great Lakes ATTC published a monograph series authored by historian William White, MA on recovery management and recovery oriented system of care. This series played a role in helping to shape the future of treatment and recovery services.
Corrie Vilsaint, PHD. Dr. Vilsaint is the principal investigator at the Recovery Research Institute and Center for Addiction Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and research fellow at Harvard Medical School. Some of her research focuses includes recovery capital, reducing discrimination among individuals in recovery and racial health equity in remission and recovery.
Ijeoma Achara-Abraham, PsyD. In her role as a consultant, trainer and strategic planner, Dr. Achara-Abraham is one of the nation’s experts in helping cities and states transform their system to a recovery oriented system of care.
Tonier Cain. Tonier is an author, entrepreneur, movie producer and one of the nation’s foremost advocates and speakers on trauma informed substance use disorders treatment.
Anita Bertrand Bradley, LSW, LICDC. Anita is founder of Northern Ohio Recovery Association. NORA is a model program offering a full range of recovery services. Anita's work has been recognized nationally. She is the recipient of Faces and Voices of Recovery, Joel Hernandez Community Recovery Award, she was honored by President Obama 's Administration as a champion of change and Smart Women Magazine, Women who Excel Entrepreneur Award.
Ayana Jordan, MD, PHD. Dr. Jordan's extensive research, educational and clinical work focuses on increasing access to evidence based substance use disorders treatment for Black, Latinx and Indigenous persons of color nationally and abroad.
Dawn Tyus, PHD, LPC. Dawn Tyus is the Principal Investigator of the African American Behavioral Health Center of Excellence, she is also PI and Director of Southeast Addiction Technology Transfer Center at Morehouse School of Medicine.