About Jeff Jay and Debra Jay
Jeff Jay is a professional interventionist, educator and author. His work has appeared on CNN, the Jane Pauley Show, PBS, Forbes Online and professional journals. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, and a certified addictions professional. He has served as president of the Terry McGovern Foundation in Washington, DC, and on the boards of directors for several professional organizations.
Jeff is the coauthor of Love First: A New Approach to Intervention for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, Hazelden, 2000. His new book from Hazelden is At Wit's End: What You Need to Know When a Loved One Is Diagnosed with Addiction and Mental Illness. He heads a national private practice that provides intervention and crisis management services. He is is a former clinician with the Hazelden Foundation and Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center. His personal recovery from addiction dates from October 4, 1981.
"I am passionate about intervention for a very simple reason," says Jeff. "Intervention saved my life."
Read Jeff Jay's articles on intervention.
Debra Jay is the author of No More Letting Go: The Spirituality
of Taking Action Against Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, published by Bantam in 2006. She has also co-authored two Hazelden Guidebooks: Love First: A New Approach to Intervention and Aging and Addiction: Helping Older Adults Overcome Alcohol or Medication Dependence.
She is in private practice with Jeff, providing intervention training and consultation services and has an additional specialty in older adult intervention. She previously worked as an addiction specialist for the Hazelden Foundation. She is a nationally known speaker and has been writing a newspaper column on alcohol and drugs since 1996. Ms. Jay has regularly appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Jeff and Debra live in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan and travel extensively. They write a monthly column on alcohol, drugs, and family for the Grosse Pointe News. The column features questions from readers. If you would like to submit a question, click here.
Contact the Jays by email HERE. You may also contact the Jays through the offices of Jeff and Debra Jay & Associates, Inc.
Toll free: 888-220-4400.
Outside the U.S., call 001-313-882-6921.
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Our business has been incorporated since 1994, educating families about intervention and working with them to get their loved ones into treatment.
Jeff and Debra Jay & Associates, Inc.
19830 Mack Avenue
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236
Toll free: 1-888-220-4400