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Geoffrey H. Davis,
BA, CADAS, JD, LSW, CACII, CPS
MAADAC President
Geoffrey Davis is the
current President
of MAADAC and
can be reached at:
Respite Counseling
Center
3622 W. Eleven Mile Rd.
Berkley, MI 48072
Please meet Geoffrey Davis, the
2007 President of MAADAC. His primary jobs are addictions counselor and attorney, complimentary fields in Davis's case. He's a state-licensed substance abuse assessor for the courts (he has a Substance Abuse Referral Facility or "SARF" license). He also holds an Alcohol Traffic Safety School license and an outpatient counseling license. In his general, sole-practitioner law practice, he handles everyday legal needs such as divorces and drunk driving cases. Davis's dual focus has served MAADAC well during his four-and-a-half-year tenure on the board of directors. He's past chair of the Legislative
Committee MAADAC members benefit in a networking sense with Davis on the board. He's connected to several other substance-abuse focused organizations, serving as on the board for the Michigan Certification Board for Addiction Professionals (MCBAP), and also serving as an evaluator and trainer for the board.
This man for all seasons also has a personal life in between meetings, counseling sessions and trials. "I have a wonderful partner and a good wife Mariann who's CEO for a large Detroit-area cardiology practice." They've been married nine years. However, he does mix business with pleasure. "I have two paralegals who show up at my office almost every day," Davis says. "Caleb takes care of the computers. He's a 7-year-old toy poodle. Jacob answers the phones. He's a 1-year-old toy poodle."
Davis goes on to say that on the Internet he found the Hebrew meaning of "Caleb." "It's dog. So, if you know somebody named Caleb, don't tell them that."
Davis is a dry and wry jokester and a lover of terrible puns. He also enjoys a saucy acronym or two. For example, he's the Vice President of the SOBs - the South Oakland Bar association. "Our cards even say we're SOBs."
But back to the dogs: Davis says with gusto, "I LOVE dogs." It was this passion that led him to volunteer at the Humane Society. He is an adoption counselor at MHS, starting almost 5 years ago by exercising the dogs, which sounds like a tame pastime until Davis starts telling Humane Society stories. "Early in my shift one day, a dog got excited and tore a big hole in my jeans. Later that same day, another dog was getting aggressive and I turned my back on him, as I'd been instructed to do by a dog-training video someone loaned me, and the dog jumped up and tore a piece out of my leather jacket." Life has not always been a laughing matter for Davis, however. He was addicted to cocaine for 10 years and has been in recovery for 18 years.
By 1995 he completed a relatively new graduate program at Wayne State and received a Graduate Certificate of Alcohol Drug Abuse Studies. He has a social work registration, is a Certified Addiction Counselor II, and a Certified Prevention Specialist. These educational underpinnings and his own recovery have led this third-generation attorney to become very involved in substance abuse counseling as well as the law these days. That is when he's not reading spy, cop or mystery novels; golfing; serving actively in his church or working
out.
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