Alcohol Abuse Advice

New York Post DRINK SHRINK’S ATTACK ON MOM By LAURA ITALIANO July 25, 2007 Last summer, a bipolar Florida psychiatrist with a history of alcohol abuse and violence went off his meds, got in his car and drove to New York City to better hide, among the crowds, from the evil “forces” pursuing him. He peeled off the trans-dermal patch that dispensed medication directly into his skin, and threw it out his car window as he drove. Once in the city, he parked on the West Side – leaving his wallet in his car – and walked to the New York Waterway terminal at 39th Street and 12th Avenue. There, unprovoked on a sunny July afternoon, he admittedly grabbed a 2-year-old boy named Thorin who lived nearby and happened to be playing with his plastic bicycle. Then, when Thorin’s terrified mother tried to stop him, he threw her to the concrete and choked her into unconsciousness, stopping only when two bystanders hoisted him off her. “I begged, I begged, I begged,” the hero mom, Jil Novenski, testified in tears yesterday – recounting her horror to a Manhattan judge in hopes that the psychotic stranger may be locked up forever. “I screamed, ‘Oh, God! Please, no!’ I thought for sure he was going to kill me in front of my son. I wanted to make sure that if I was going to die, he wasn’t going to get [Thorin.] “He squeezed harder and harder,” Novenski remembered of the stranger’s hands around her throat. “Then, everything went black.” Amazingly, the psychotic shrink – child psychiatrist Dr …