Mark Lee, LCSW: Mark has been working with a wide range of drug addicts in a variety of settings for over thirty years. He is a licensed clinical social worker who received his Master's in social work from Wayne State University in Detroit and moved to Arizona in 1994.He has done thousands of therapy groups specifically for individuals with substance abuse problems. He has done thousands of lectures communicating information important to the recovery of individuals with substance abuse problems. He has done thousands of crisis assessments in hospital emergency rooms and on the medical floors of hospitals, many of which have revolved around the patient's substance abuse problems. He has intervened and encouraged thousands of individuals with substance abuse problems to pursue recovery. Few in the field of behavioral health have had such extensive experience "where the rubber meets the road" working with drug addicts.There is not a treatment level of care that he has not had experience with.

At Banner Behavioral Health Hospital in Scottsdale, he ran the substance abuse residential program for five years, providing up to 28 days of programming for the patients. He has done intensive outpatient groups (IOP) for several treatment programs for nine years. He has provided groups in detoxes, mental health units in psychiatric hospitals and partial hospital programs. He has done hundreds of family groups for the families of individuals with substance abuse problems. There is not a population that he has not worked with including: young addicts and old, rich addicts and the homeless, men and women, addicts with AIDS and other severe medical problems, and active military personnel and veterans.It is with this experience that he has written The Drug Addict's Handbook (For Recovery) a book that contains all of the interventions he believes are most important for a drug addict in the early days of recovery.