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Bruce Cotter is the senior partner of Bruce Cotter and Associates, a national Intervention and Recovery Management firm. He excelled at many things in life - education, competitive sports, and a career in broadcasting - until alcoholism cost him all but his life. Today, Cotter has earned the reputation as America's leading interventionist.

He is the interventionist who most frequently works with CEOs of major corporations, and athletes and entertainers, and whom senior staff members of treatment centers call upon when they have a personal interest in an individual with a chemical dependency problem. Trained at the Johnson Institute, under Reverend Vernon Johnson, in St. Paul, the Employee Assistance Program at Loyola College in Baltimore, and mainly, at the "school of hard knocks," Cotter sees every case as "the seventh game of the World Series," and he brings a fierce and competitive resolve to his work.

He was born and educated in Philadelphia. He is an avid fisherman and enjoys
coaching his son's baseball and basketball teams. With offices in Baltimore,
Maryland and Palm Beach, Florida, Cotter resides with his wife and son in the
Maryland countryside.

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"Do Drug and Alcohol Interventions Really Work?"
…A graduate of the Johnson Institute, interventionist Bruce Cotter has broken from tradition and developed his own model of intervention. He started out the usual way, he says, because he didn’t know any better. He did what he was taught to do, gathering groups of concerned people to confront the loved one.
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"Tough Love"
...Bruce Cotter, author of the book When They Won’t Quit, became disenchanted with the technique after leading many interventions. “I walked into a lot of volatile situations,” he says, recalling an incident in which a father lunged at his heroin-addicted son.
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"Living With An Addict
Spouses Struggle and Suffer in Battle with Demons"
..."Addicts take their spouses hostage," said Cotter. "The addict will decide the overall health of the relationship: How they will parent. Where they will live. Who their friends will be..."
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"This Day and Age"
..."using cocaine as a social endeavor is the same as playing Russian roulette for recreation." Cotter, a former addict himself, said every addict he's ever known began his or her drug use on a social basis.
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"My Boss, The Boozer"
CNN Market Call video segment
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"The Fitness Equation"
...Substance abuse has been climbing in the workplace among blue and white collar workers. When you have an impaired employee, they’re running at about 70 percent capacity at best. Such a loss in productivity can quickly impact companies small and large.
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"Second-Chance Recovery"
Substance abuse is a multi-billion-dollar problem- spiking insurance costs and draining productivity and morale. A common way to deal with it? Fire the offenders and hold them up as examples. That’s precisely the wrong approach.
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"Dealing with Addiction, and What Comes After"
Addiction costs corporate America billions of dollars a year in lost productivity, absenteeism and higher health care expenses.
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Firms advised to re-evaluate substance-abuse practices compassion, but not coddling, is suggested for affected employees
...Many bosses and co-workers often let alcoholics and drug addicts get
away with behavior that wouldn't long be tolerated in other workers. On
reason is that alcoholics and drug addicts possess a particular genius for
deception and for luring others into protecting them, says Bruce Cotter,
an alcoholism and addiction specialist.
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"The Impact of an Addicted Person on Employers and Co-workers"
Why do alcoholics become corporate policy makers? Because we find them,
we recruit them, we hire them and then we expect them to perform a vital
task.
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"The New Addictions"
...Waiting for an addict to realize their addiction by hitting rock bottom is
risky, Cotter says...
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"Recovering Alcoholic and Interventionist Offers Help for WHEN THEY WON'T QUIT"
Cotter is not a psychiatrist or a social worker...He was working in radio
broadcast management when he went into treatment for alcoholism...
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"Former Alcoholic Takes No Excuses When Helping Addicts Recover"
Bruce Cotter has heard all the excuses. He's probably used them all, too...
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"Interventionist Helps Addicts"
When Bruce Cotter meets with a client, either he wins or alcohol wins...
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"Dr. Jim Dassinger and Bruce Cotter"
Dr: Jim: What is a dry drunk?
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