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Good morning...
Our golf outing is today and by all accounts, it will be be our most successful ever! A huge thanks to our tournament co-chairs Michael J. Brennan and Jeffery Capazzi, who along with our board of directors, the tournament committee, our dedicated staff and volunteers have worked so hard to get us to this day.
If you aren't joining us for golf, you can also still join us for dinner at The Creek in Locust Valley at 5:30PM. The Honorable Thomas R. Suozzi emcees and NY Yankees Executive Ray Negron receives our Humanitarian Award. There will be great food, live music, surprise celebrity guests and an exciting live auction featuring playing opportunities at some of America's best golf courses.
Dinner tickets are just $200 and you can pay at the door. Directions are here . Stay tuned for a a full wrap-up next week.
Jeffrey L. Reynolds, Ph.D, CEAP
Executive Director
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Thank you to our generous sponsors!
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31st Annual R. Brinkley Smithers Golf Invitational Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
The Christopher D. Smithers Foundation, Inc.
The JOBIN Organization
William DeLuca
The Baum Family
Silver Sponsors
Donna and Michael J. Brennan
Richard Antonacci, Capital One Bank
The Kahl Family
The Brayman Family
John Doolan
Tim Casey
Bronze Sponsors
Michael J. Brennan
Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP
Murray Hill East Suites
Moritt Hock & Hamroff, LLP
Koeppel Martone Lesitman & Herman, LLP
Nathel & Nathel, Inc.
Carol Hoffman, Esq.
Angelo Mangia, Esq.
John P. Sheehy, MD, Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, PC
Continental Home Loans, Inc.
Dinner Sponsor
William DeLuca
Golf Cart Sponsors
Hirshleifer's
Prescott Jennings Jr., In Memory of Orman Crocker
Hole Sponsors
UFCW Local 1500
The Randi and Clifford Lane Foundation
Saks Fifth Avenue, Walk Whitman Mall
Bee and Warren Wylie
Putting Green Sponsors
Ronald Portnoy
Marci Glazer
Jonathan Kaplan
Photography Sponsors
Bruce and Randi Pergament
Prescott Jennings, Jr., In Memory of Orman Crocker
Print Sponsors
Mountainside Foundation
Flushing Savings Bank
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Docs Critical In Addressing Alcohol Abuse
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A group of fifteen medical groups from around the world issued a powerful statement this week calling on doctors to step-up their efforts to address alcohol abuse. Among the signatories were representatives from the American College of Physicians, and organizations from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Nigeria, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa and Thailand. The statement, published in The Lancet read as follows:
"2 billion people worldwide consume alcohol, and of these 76.3 million have alcohol misuse problems, with substantial morbidity, mortality, and social harm. Alcohol use is the third leading risk factor for preventable and premature disease, with a lamentable lack of any global remediable action.  Despite the clear evidence of harm from excess alcohol, there is little will to prioritise the problem in the global health agenda. Therefore the challenge is to reduce this harm by strengthening policies and their implementation locally, nationally, and globally. Such strengthening requires influence and commitment at all levels of the health, political, and legal systems, but the health harms mandate that physicians must take a lead. Evidence-based cost-effective interventions reduce harm from alcohol, but advocacy for an alcohol policy is not politically attractive. The conflict between government-driven health policy and commercial or social governmental influences impedes the progress of any national or international policy. There is, therefore, an urgent need to put pressure on governments to recognise, adopt, and scale up appropriate health policies.
WHO's Global strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol, ratified at the World Health Assembly in 2010, is the first step towards the introduction of an effective co-ordinated response. Physicians are in a unique position to lead and inform this initiative. An international clinical network with a coherent voice should demand action to reduce alcohol misuse across the globe.
Medical professionalism includes the responsibility to speak out, to lead, and to voice advocacy. It is every clinician's responsibility to address alcohol harm, both on a daily basis with individual patients and in the wider context of health harms and inequalities at the population level. The voice of doctors is valued and trusted within societies, and therefore we call on all doctors to show effective leadership by holding ministries of health accountable for their lack of action in the face of such robust evidence. We ask governments to act urgently and to champion evidence-based initiatives for the implementation of effective alcohol strategies at all levels to improve the health of populations worldwide."
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FYI: Recovery Retreat Weekends
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 Long Island Credo Recovery is a Christian retreat program that teaches people with life-controlling issues the way out through reliance on Jesus Christ in the recovery process. The weekend is designed to help people learn to initiate, develop, and maintain healthy, intimate relationships with God and with others. There are speakers, times for discussion, prayer and meditation, as well as meals, snacks and more.
Whether you are struggling with overcoming unhealthy habits or well on the road to living free, you can grow in extraordinary ways as a result of your participation in this weekend. Long Island's first Women's Credo weekend will be held at St. Joseph's Renewal Center in Brentwood, NY on Oct. 6-9, 2011 and our next men's weekend will be Nov. 3-6, 2011.
If you are interested or if you know someone who may be interested, please contact Steven DeCillis at 516-551-7309 or visit www.longislandcredo.weebly.com.
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22nd Annual Peter Sweisgood Breakfast
Sunday, November 13th
Melville Marriott
Break bread with Long Island's addiction treatment community as we give thanks for the miracle of recovery, nourish our souls, and acknowledge those who have stepped forward to address the challenges of addiction.
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