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Dr. Twersld is the Founder/Medical Director Emeritus of
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He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry
at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
and served for 20 years as Clinical Director of
the Department of Psychiatry at St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburgh.
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Oakland County Office of Substance
Abuse, (248) 858-5200
Alcoholics Anonymous, Oakland
County, (248) 332-3521, 541-6565
Narcotics Anonymous, Oakland
County, (248) 543-7200
AlAnon, Oakland County, (248)
706-1020
JACS (Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically
Dependent Persons and Significant
Others), Melinda Nagler (babysitting
available), (248) 788-1170
Jewish Family Service, (also JAGS),
Emilie Dauch, (248) 559-1500
Clean House, Sandra Schiff, (248)
357-0600
Friendship Circle, Rabbi Yisrael
Pinson, (248) 788-7878

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Dawn Farm, Jason Schwartz, (734)
485-8725
Teens Using Drugs, Jess Antanaitis,
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Coalition for Youth
West Bloomfield, Donna Schaerer,
(248) 360-3760
Tri-Community (Berkley,
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Birmingham-Bloomfield, Lisa
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