Seattle conference to focus on trauma and addiction treatment

The incidence of trauma and abuse has truly reached epidemic proportions, and those who suffer trauma sometimes turn to alcohol or other drugs to manage post-traumatic stress symptoms like nightmares, anxiety, insomnia, and dissociation.  

That's why Hazelden, the nation's leading provider of addiction recovery services and information, will host a daylong conference on "Treating Trauma and Addiction," October 5 in Seattle at the Marriott Waterfront.  The conference will bring together clinicians, counselors and other healing professionals to explore approaches to the problem of trauma sufferers, www.hazelden.org/traumaconference.

Presenters at the conference will include New York Times best-selling author William C. Moyers, vice president of Public Affairs and Community Relations for Hazelden and author of the upcoming "Now What? An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery"; Stephanie S. Covington, Ph.D., co-director of the Institute for Relational Development and the Center for Gender and Justice, and an expert in the field of women, trauma and addiction; and Laura Ferguson, M.D., an addiction psychiatrist at Hazelden in Springbrook, Ore., which specializes in treating trauma and addiction.

SOURCE Hazelden