Jacques Nir

Jacques Nir, LCSW, SIFI has been teaching the intro Substance Abuse Treatment at CSSW for the past 5 years and is an Alumni graduate of the CSSW class of 1996. He is Chief Operating Officer at Parallax Center providing services for Outpatient Detoxification and Substance Abuse Services. Prior positions include Chief Operating Officer at the PAC program, which retains 5 outpatient substance abuse clinics. He has dedicated his career to re-establishing medically supervised 822 clinics to provide a holistic approach to client care. Mr. Nir has held senior leadership roles for the last 23 years in both Mental Health and Substance Abuse Agencies. "it’s important that we identify the clinical relevance of the APG billing codes and provide services with a harm reduction - medical model philosophy. Substance Abuse is a medical diagnosis that is not isolated and the term, "self- medication" implies that the client presents a life experience of trauma or a mental health concern. 80% of substance abusers experience a comorbidity of SUD and MH". Mr. Nir continues to develop policies that are client centered and with the lens that a client has multitude of bio-psycho-social needs that need to be addressed and that client's goals evolve from session to session.