Helping employees, families and organizations

A Proven Track Record:

• 25 + years of successful service to companies coast to coast.
• Experience and success with a broad spectrum of companies and organizations.
• High impact service - efficient, accessible, fast, responsive, qualified.
• Broad range of talented professional, licensed staff.
• Experience in both union and non-union settings.

Experienced:

We are experts in managing behavioral risk. Our staff is a dedicated, professional and multi-diciplinary team. All members are experienced and have the necessary degrees, certificates or licenses. Team members have skills from disciplines, including psychiatry, psychology, social work, medicine, business, the ministry and substance abuse counseling. We also have multi-language capability.

Rick Atwater is the Director, Behavioral Health Services for Employee Health Consultants, Inc. Along with managing, training and providing direct service, he writes a weekly column called "Straight Talk" for a Chicago suburban newspaper (The Northwest Herald). This column is directed toward the issues of substance abuse, substance abusers and their family members and has been published for 25 years. As a service to our EAP newsletter subscribers, we would like to offer a selection of archived columns for you to use/read.

Rick is now featuring “Straight Stuff on Addictions” a weekly radio program broadcast via Blog Talk Radio.  You can listen live every Sunday at 8 PM CDT or listen to the episode you choose right here by selecting one of the previously aired shows listed below.  Also please visit our dedicated site, Recovery Internet Radio.