Love First A Family's Guide to Intervention

A graduate of the University of Minnesota & a certified alcohol & drug counselor, Jeff Jay is president of the Terry McGovern Foundation in Washington, D.C., & director of Program Development/CIO at Brighton Hospital Treatment Center in Brighton, Michigan.

Debra Jay is nationally recognized public speaker and writes a newspaper column on alcohol and drug addiction. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University and the Hazelden School of Addiction Studies. She is also a graduate of the Dale Carnegie Course on Public Speaking. Debra is author of No More Letting Go: The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism and Drug Addiction (Bantam). She is coauthor of the books Love First and Aging and Addiction. Debra worked for the Hazelden Foundation as an inpatient addiction therapist on both men�s and women�s units in primary care. She facilitated the family program, coordinated the older adult program, and worked in the extended care,…  More aftercare and outpatient programs. She designed an outpatient family program. She also supervised the women�s unit. She has worked as a clinical interventionist since 1996. Her title, It Takes a Family, made forthcoming books best seller list for the Spring of 2014.  Less

George McGovern, the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 1972, served in the House of Representatives from 1957 to 1961 and in the Senate for eighteen years. He was the president of the Middle East Policy Council in Washington, D.C., for six years and then served as ambassador to the UN Agencies on Food and Agriculture in Rome under President Clinton. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross for service as a bomber pilot in World War II and the Presidential Medal of Freedom for humanitarian service.