Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 5:30pm-8:30pm
Josephine A. Fiorentino Community Center
123 Antwerp Street
Allston, MA 02134
Rick will attend a discussion as a panelist following the film “The Anonymous People”. [Download pdf flyer here for further information].
Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
8:00am-noon
Courtyard Boston Downtown
On behalf of the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR), Rick will speak on the Stakeholder Panel at the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, a program of The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.
The title of the forum is “Improving Access to Substance Abuse Treatment and Reducing Incarceration and Recidivism”.
Rick’s panel is scheduled speak at 10:30am.
Monday, April 27th, 2015 at 7:00pm-9:00pm
Suffolk University Law School
4th Floor Faculty Dining Hall
Featuring strategies for zealously and effectively representing your clients within the bounds of the law with cases involving substance use, abuse, and addiction from pre-arrest to post conviction, including probation and parole.
Friday, April 10th, 2015 at 3:15pm
Wentworth Douglass Hospital Garrison Wing, Dover NH
Rick will be speaking about his unique life experience and his transformation from a hopeless addict to the successful, contributing attorney he is today. He will explain how he uses innovative ideas in his law practice to collaborate with the recovery community in order achieve success in decreasing relapse and recidivism among his clients. He will speak about fostering hope through collaboration, community and caring.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
University of Massachusetts, Boston (Link to Course Description)
Attorney Dyer will be the guest lecturer at a workshop entitled “Criminal Justice and Substance Abuse”, an elective for students completing the ACEP Program (Addictions Counselor Education Program) at UMASS Boston. He will be lecturing on his authored chapter in LexisNexis’ 2013-2015 Editions of Mass. Criminal Law about strategies for diversion and alternative dispositions and sentencing mitigation.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 form 5:00-7:00pm
Cherry Room at The New England School of Law
Sponsored by the Public Interest Law Association (PILA)
“Join Rick Dyer, a criminal defense attorney and representative of action and change. Attorney Dyer overcame his own struggles from heroin addiction, homelessness, and incarceration. Now as an attorney practicing in the same court he had been sentenced in, Rick stands as an inspiration and advocate for recovery.”
Cases in District Court are often complicated by issues of substance use, abuse or addiction. Statistics show that 80 percent of offenders abuse drugs and/or alcohol, and nearly 50 percent of jail inmates are clinically addicted and 60 to 80 percent of drug abusers commit a new crime after release from prison.
This program will feature strategies for zealously and effectively representing your clients within the bounds of the law with cases involving substance use, abuse and addiction from pre-arrest to post-conviction, including probation and parole. Topics also include:
About The Author: Rick Dyer has been an attorney for 29 yrs and advocate for recovery both locally and nationally. He knows what it is like to be on both sides of the Law. He overcame his struggles from heroin addiction, homelessness and incarceration, received a Governor’s pardon and presently practices law in the same court he was sentenced out of over 8 times. Rick is a dynamic speaker on addiction recovery issues and a representative of action and change. He has appeared on CBS, has been featured in Parade Magazine, Lawyers Weekly, the MBA Law Journal, Northeastern University School of Law Magazine and SAMHSA’s Recovery Month Toolkit.
October 28, 2014 at 2:00 pm | Link
Lahey Residential Program is a highly structured, therapeutically intensive residential program for adolescent boys with substance use issues.
October 2, 2014 at 11:30am | Link
Ostiguy is a recovery is a safe, sober learning environment for students who need help, and who are ready to commit to sobriety.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 6:00pm
874 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
