R E Martin and Associates provides intervention services, consultation and professional education and training.
Robert has facilitated over four hundred interventions in his career. He is a very respected professional who has been a leader in the substance abuse disorder treatment field for over twenty-five years. A national expert on substances of abuse and treatment, he has appeared in USA Today, The New York Times, The Charlotte Observer and other print media and on numerous occasions on ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX television as expert on drug diversion by healthcare professionals, the opiate epidemic, prescription drug abuse, designer drugs, alcohol use disorder treatment and other addiction topics.
As the Vice President of Operations of a new treatment facility, he was responsible for the process of licensing and opening their intensive outpatient, day treatment and ambulatory detox programs. While there, Robert was asked by EAPA to present what EAP's can do to address the opiate epidemic at the International Employee Assistance Professional's Conference in Chicago, Illinois. He also was asked to speak on the opiate epidemic at the North Carolina Foundation of Alcohol and Drugs Studies Winter and Summer schools.
Robert was the Director of Substance Abuse Services for Carolinas Medical Center Mercy from March 1998 until September 2016. He was the director of a busy hospital based medical detox and a large intensive outpatient program group.
He was credited by Sam Quinones in his book Dreamland: A True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic with identifying the change in patient demographics in the increase usage of black tar heroin.
Robert is very passionate about the treatment of Substance Use Disorder patients. His varied professional background as an employee assistance counselor, attorney and police sergeant give him a unique objective approach to the field.
Robert has presented to the International Employee Assistance Professional Association, the National RX Drug Summit (2014), North Carolina Employee Assistance Professional conferences, North Carolina American Case Management Association conference and numerous other professional training venues. He has appeared in USA Today and on NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX television as an expert in heroin, opioid abuse and other addiction topics. He served as a professional adviser to Damian Lewis and the writers of Homeland for background on heroin withdrawal in the character Lewis played, Sergeant Brody.
Robert faced his own alcohol and drug problems. He suffered from depression and PTSD. He was involved in a deadly line of duty shooting as a police sergeant. He understands what families experience. He has been sober since February 1991.
A kidney cancer survivor, he enjoys his Brittany Hope, who his wife gifted him as a puppy to be his cancer buddy and his new rescue Brittany named Abby. He has been married for 41 years and he and his wife, Linda have three adult sons .
