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Season’s Greetings From Our CEO

Dear SASSI colleagues and friends,

As has become our tradition, we would like to extend our warm holiday greetings to you and your loved ones. This end-of-year message also allows us to inform you of our newest developments, initiatives and plans.

We continue to focus our efforts on better assisting all of you in doing the valued work of treating, helping, and addressing the many issues your clients face daily and doing it with passion and dedication. In 2026 and the years to follow, we will be providing you with new and exciting tools to further help in treating your clients. This coming year we are planning initiatives that will better capture your needs, as expressed by your surveys and postings to us. Our plans include the ability for you to customize reports and various toolboxes that will allow you to focus on the specific needs of your clients. Among other things, we will enhance our focus on co-morbidities, the needs of special populations and the more recent proliferation of substances like isotonitazene, a drug about one hundred to one thousand times more potent than morphine that has emerged as a primary drug on the illicit market. It sometimes feels like we can never get ahead of these onslaughts of new and deadlier substances. Please stay in touch with us and check out our blogs as we report the many things we will have available as they happen. We remain grateful and thankful for your many efforts and the challenges you face. As always, we remain a phone call or email away from helping you in your missions, so we can better fulfill our own, providing the necessary tools and assistance to those that assist others.

Many have lost family, friends and loved ones to various issues, and our hearts go out to them; but especially to those that we have lost to the various sequalae of addiction, disease, overdose and any combination of complications. May you be now joined by the higher power of your choosing, and with the love from those that preceded you, as well as those that will miss you here. It is our sincerest hope that your pains and sorrows may ease over time. For those that continue in their struggles in their fights against the many ravages of addiction, there is always hope, help, and survival tools. Continue to demonstrate that inner strength and believe that you indeed have the power to change and find that personal place where you can achieve whatever you desire. And please know that you do not have to do it alone, one day or moment at a time, keep the fight alive. Please know that we are all in your corner.

In the meantime, our Board of Directors, senior management, consultants, contractors and myself, want to share that we are available to you, and reassure you that we remain committed to providing the critical assistance so many of you seek to help your clients. There are no words sufficient to thank you for the work you do, the struggles you engage in and your quests to help those less fortunate than ourselves. For that and so many more reasons, we at The SASSI Institute share our thanks, gratitude and admiration!

We will continue doing our best to allow you, our licensees and collaborators, to continue to do your jobs, offer your many services and continue to assist those that need us the most. I am extremely proud of our staff and the non-stop work they have continued to perform. In closing, we all wish you a happy holiday season and a happy and healthy year full of joy.

Turning the Corner on COVID-19

Dear Friends,

For more than a year now, our lives have been literally turned upside down. Many of us have lost loved ones and friends or had them severely affected by this terrible pandemic. It has caused upheavals in basically all areas of our lives.

But I think it is safe to say that we are finally turning the corner. Science tells us that the required herd immunities and vaccinations are soon to be at optimal levels. Here at The SASSI Institute, we are at more than 95% capacity. And I am so proud of our staff, their dedication and professionalism as they continued to serve you, the heart of our business. They were with you through thick and thin, and despite the multiple obstacles, collectively we accomplished an extraordinary level of achievements throughout this time. For example, we have multiple publications that are now in the public domain. Please contact our Customer Service Team if you are interested in any of them, they are free of charge. If interested in our Training services and availabilities, contact our Training Director Ms. Scarlett Baker, or our Executive Assistant, Ms. Lauren Nelson. Kristin Kimmell LMSW, LCAC, our Clinical Director and her team are available for any of your clinical concerns. And by the way, Lauren also serves as our IT specialist, so she is available for any mishaps in your IT service provision.

In sum, I am very proud of you, our customers for maintaining our collaborations, our staff for making that possible, and to the many, many individuals we serve, may their path to recovery be enlightened by your services.

With warm regards,

As 2020 Comes to a Close: A Message from the CEO

This year has been unusual in so many respects. Our resolves, faiths, and tenacities have been tested for over ten months now. We have suffered losses and multiple pains, including emotional, mental and physical. We have endured an almost constant barraging drain on our senses. For over two straight weeks now we have experienced more than 100K daily COVID-19 cases nationally. As a result, many of us have lost loved ones, friends, or colleagues. Many more have been unable to see our loved ones, but for the benefits of social media.

I for one, have been unable to see, hold, and hug my family for close to a year. I consider the risks too high to endanger myself and those I love any more than I have to. But I also know I am not alone and I know we are looking forward to a really great Holiday season next year; we will celebrate twice as hard in 2021. Various vaccines and antibody drugs are in development, and we should all be immensely grateful to all of the scientists, nurses, doctors, caregivers, and caretakers, that risk their lives daily in the hopes of developing something fast, and caring for the ill until we do.

Yet the truly amazing thing, what is truly astonishing is that despite these pains, throughout these arduous journeys, throughout these uncertainties, we have found the inner strength and fortitude to trudge on. A true testament to the human spirit. Through it all, we have managed to be there for one another, for our friends, colleagues, and for our families. We have remained united, and that should be foremost in all our minds.

In my humble opinion, in order to succeed and defeat this Pandemic in the end, it is in our best interests, indeed our civic duty to maintain our focus on what needs getting done. Let’s each do our part by adhering to the CDC’s policies and protocols. It also our fervent hope that at some point soon, the entire country is protected with enough COVID vaccinations that we successfully eradicate this Pandemic as we have historically done to other calamitous diseases in the past.

In the meantime, our staff, Board of Directors, and myself, offer you only the best for the coming year. Better times lie ahead!

Be kind to yourselves and let’s make it our mission to take care of each other, as best we can.

Happy Holidays!

Coronavirus Vaccine Hopes

Dear Friends,

On Monday, November 9th,the CEO of Pfizer announced positive early results from its coronavirus vaccine trial, citing an over 90% effectiveness rate during its first phase of clinical trials. This is truly monumental news of worldwide significance. This fact has renewed hope throughout the country, indeed throughout the world, that we were finally coming closer to achieving a response to this deadly Pandemic. We at The SASSI Institute maintain our fervent hopes that in light of the over 100,000 daily national cases that have now become the norm, as a country and internationally, we will soon be able to eradicate this unfathomably terrible disease.

Given the recent spikes, like so many other businesses throughout the country, we recently had to again minimize our in-office time for all staff, including our shipping department. Nevertheless, all of our departments are open for business, and we want to reassure you that we will ship your products out on time, and as promised. We also want to remind you that we maintain our schedule of a December 1st SASSI Adolescent-3 release and that we have several articles in submission while we await their scientific review. Please contact our Customer Service team for pre-ordering information, and/or our Training Department for our upcoming training schedules.

I am delighted to announce that our Board of Directors and management team want to assure you that given this calamitous year, and in the hopes of giving our customer base a hand-up, we will not be raising prices in 2021. In fact, if you are experiencing financial difficulties, please contact our Customer Service Team and/or our Training team. They are more than willing to make suitable payment arrangements and offer their assistance during these difficult times.

We sincerely hope that you, your families, and colleagues remain safe. We remain confident that better times lie ahead!

Stay safe!

Warmly,