Joining us on FireFighter Wellness Radio on Fire Engineering Blog talk Radio is Joel Brier from IAFF Local 2928 joins us to talk about how he serves the firefighters of Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. Joel is retired after 30 years as a line firefighter and still currently represents over 2000 firefighters and paramedics as a union official as has done so for the last 33 years. He is a certified addiction counselor as well as a seasoned interventionist.

Mark W Lamplugh Jr Your host Mark W Lamplugh Jr is a 4th generation firefighter and former Captain with Lower Chichester Fire Company(PA). Mark has been instrumental in the creation of several addiction and PTSD programs throughout the United States over the past eight years. He is currently the Vice President of Responder Services for Advanced Health & Education and Cedar Point Recovery which operates Frontline Responder Services which helps firefighters and other first responders who are struggling with behavioral and mental health issues. Lamplugh is also nationally recognized in Crisis Stress Intervention through the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.  He has helped hundreds of firefighters, police officers, veterans, EMS personnel, and civilians nationwide find help for addiction, alcoholism, PTSD, and mental health support. He can be reached for comment at mark@360wellness.org.

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About Frontline Responder Services and Advanced Health & Education 

Addiction can ruin relationships and destroy your future. Advanced Health and Education’s New Jersey drug rehab and alcohol rehab treatment center can give you or your loved one the tools needed to  recover from addiction.

The mission at our rehab center in NJ is to provide effective addiction recovery services to adults suffering from alcoholism or other drug addiction (including, cocaine, heroin, painkillers and prescription drug addiction).

Each client at Advanced Health and Education’s rehabilitation center in NJ is assigned a team of therapists to plan, carry out, and monitor every part of the recovery process.

Our team of treatment professionals has spent decades working in substance abuse treatment programs, helping people get and stay clean and teaching the coping skills that will carry them into long-term recovery.

Clients attending treatment programs at our New Jersey alcohol and drug rehab center will find peaceful surroundings and a positive treatment community. Clients also have access to alternative and exercise therapies include access to chiropractic services, acupuncture, yoga, and exercise classes.

About Frontline Responder Services 

Our staff of former first responders help to create an environment of therapeutic comfort and ease through sharing in their own experiences.

At Sprout Health Group, we acknowledge and understand the underlying sources of a  First Responders’ reaction to the stresses of everyday life…and support their path back to their family and job.

• Active and retired First Responders with backgrounds in peer support, peer counseling, employee assistance and crisis interventions
• Clinical therapists who have extensive years of training and experience exclusively working with First Responders
• We are developing the area’s largest network of Alumni and Peer Support for First Responders in Recovery