Co‑Founder, Long Island Addiction Treatment Resources · Operator, Intervention New York (separate entity) · In long‑term recovery
Benjamin Zohar is a Nationally Certified Advanced Clinical Intervention Professional who helps families navigate addiction treatment placement, intervention planning, and recovery coordination. His work focuses on helping individuals and families across Long Island move from crisis and confusion toward structured, evidence-informed care.
Benjamin supports families by assessing treatment needs, helping verify insurance benefits, and coordinating placement into detox, residential, outpatient, and step-down programs when appropriate. He is involved in addiction advocacy, family support, and professional recovery networks, with a focus on ethical placement, clarity, and timely access to care.
Benjamin works directly with families to understand clinical needs, treatment goals, insurance coverage, and logistical concerns. His role is focused on helping people identify appropriate addiction treatment options across Long Island and beyond, while making the process easier to understand during stressful moments.
As a family coordination and placement specialist, Benjamin helps individuals and families navigate addiction treatment access with clarity, urgency, and compassion. His work supports people seeking drug rehab, alcohol rehab, detox, medication-assisted treatment, recovery housing, and aftercare planning.
Treatment Placement Support
Benjamin helps coordinate placement into appropriate addiction treatment programs based on clinical needs, insurance coverage, location, and level of care. This may include detox, residential treatment, outpatient care, or ongoing recovery support.
Insurance Verification & Utilization
He helps families understand insurance coverage, treatment benefits, and placement options so they can make informed decisions about care without unnecessary delays.
Family-Centered Intervention Strategy
Benjamin supports families during high-stress situations by helping organize next steps, clarify communication, and coordinate structured intervention support when needed.
Aftercare & Recovery Planning
He helps families think beyond the first placement by supporting step-down planning, recovery housing considerations, outpatient care, reintegration needs, and long-term recovery support.
Benjamin is a Nationally Certified Advanced Clinical Intervention Professional. This credential reflects advanced training in intervention, addiction treatment navigation, family systems, and recovery coordination.
Benjamin is a professional member of NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals. This membership reflects his commitment to ethical practice, professional development, and addiction-focused education.
Benjamin is an advocate member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, with additional involvement through NAMI New York State and NAMI Queens/Nassau. His advocacy supports early intervention, public education, stigma reduction, and expanded access to mental health and addiction care.
Benjamin serves as a network moderator with the International Society of Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Professionals, with a focus on addiction policy, recovery, and community issues. His involvement supports broader conversations around treatment access, prevention, and recovery systems.
Benjamin contributes educational content through ISSUP, where his work focuses on addiction policy, treatment access, family systems, and intervention support.
Benjamin’s work helps Long Island Addiction Treatment Resources provide families with clear, practical, and compassionate guidance during some of the most stressful moments of the addiction treatment process. His background in intervention support, placement coordination, advocacy, and professional recovery networks helps families better understand their options and move toward appropriate care.
Every family situation is approached with urgency, respect, and a focus on ethical placement. Benjamin’s work supports Long Island Addiction Treatment Resources’ mission to connect individuals and families with addiction treatment options that fit their needs, coverage, preferences, and location.
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