Dianne Schwartz

Dianne Schwartz is the co-owner and co-builder of Realization Center, the oldest and largest licensed outpatient addictions treatment program in Manhattan and Brooklyn. She is credentialed as an alcoholism/substance abuse counselor, but because of her recovery from the suffering that comes with food addiction, her interest and passion is food addiction recovery. She developed the Food Addiction Treatment Program at Realization Center in 1993, and as part of the program, she has been offering a...See more

Dianne Schwartz is the co-owner and co-builder of Realization Center, the oldest and largest licensed outpatient addictions treatment program in Manhattan and Brooklyn. She is credentialed as an alcoholism/substance abuse counselor, but because of her recovery from the suffering that comes with food addiction, her interest and passion is food addiction recovery. She developed the Food Addiction Treatment Program at Realization Center in 1993, and as part of the program, she has been offering a 16-week lecture series for all clients on the relationship between their eating behavior and their alcoholism and/or drug addiction, how their eating affects their sobriety and potential for relapse, and how it all began.Over time, as the reputation of the Food Addiction Treatment Program grew, people with eating problems who did not abuse alcohol or drugs entered the program. Her book The Big Book of True Recovery from Food Addiction is an outgrowth of the lecture series. She has lectured at Fordham University's Annual Addiction Institute in a workshop Broccoli Is Not the Problem: The Real Culprits in Food Addiction. She has presented at master's social work classes at NYU and Fordham University. Her article, Food Addiction: Chemical Dependency's Twin, was published in Behavioral Health News in the Winter 2014 issue. See less