Our guest this evening is Dr. Lala Straussner, director of the NYU Silver School of Social Work post-master certificate program in the Clinical Approaches to Addictions. Dr. Straussner is editor or author of numerous books, including Children of Substance-Abusing Parents: Dynamics and Treatment, The Handbook of Addiction Treatment For Women: Theory and Practice, Ethnocultural Factors in the Treatment of Addictions, and Gender and addictions: Men and women in treatment.