Meet the experts behind ASAP
Two founders, one mission: give workplaces the physician-led education they need to stay safe.
Dr. Corey Adler
Founder, FFD Learning & ASAP
The founder of Workplace Impairment Solutions and co-founder of FFD Learning, creating practical tools and education to help employers manage impairment and fitness for duty. He developed the ASAP program to provide workplaces with credible, science-based education that supports safer, better-informed decisions.
Dr. Melissa Snider-Adler
Content & Subject Matter Expert, ASAP
Melissa Snider-Adler, MD, CCFP(AM), MRO(AAMRO), DABAM, FASAM
The co-founder and subject matter expert of FFD Learning, bringing more than 20 years of experience in addiction medicine, workplace substance use, impairment, and fitness for duty. She developed the educational content for the ASAP program to help employers and employees respond to workplace substance-related concerns with knowledge, confidence, compassion, and safety in mind.
WHY 
EXISTS
For Dr. Melissa Snider-Adler, education has always been more than part of her work - it has been the thread running through her entire life. From teaching piano and tutoring as a teenager to educating patients, physicians, employers, and workplace leaders, she repeatedly saw how understanding could change the way people thought, responded, and made decisions. Throughout years of consulting with workplaces, she emphasized that policies could only go so far if employees did not understand the reasons behind them, the risks substance use could create, or why fitness-for-duty expectations mattered.
She believed that when people were given clear, practical, and compassionate information, workplace safety became something they could understand and take part in, not simply a set of rules they were expected to follow.
Dr. Corey Adler shared that belief and saw an opportunity to bring this education beyond individual consultations, presentations, and training sessions. His idea for FFD Learning created a way to make credible, science-based education accessible to every employer and employee who needed it. Together, they built FFD Learning to help workplaces turn knowledge into safer choices, stronger cultures, and meaningful change.
Dr. Corey Adler shared that belief and saw an opportunity to bring this education beyond individual consultations, presentations, and training sessions. His idea for FFD Learning created a way to make credible, science-based education accessible to every employer and employee who needed it. Together, they built FFD Learning to help workplaces turn knowledge into safer choices, stronger cultures, and meaningful change.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Alcohol & Substance Awareness Program (ASAP) is a comprehensive, evidence-based training solution that helps workplaces address one of the biggest risks to safety and productivity: substance use.
ASAP closes the gap between workplace policy and employee understanding, ensuring everyone knows what “fit for duty” means and how to comply with substance use policies.
- Employees: Build awareness of risks of substance use and what compliance to policy really looks like.
- Supervisors & Managers: Build awareness of substance use risks to promote effective communication and drive a safer, healthier workplace culture.
- HR & Occupational Health: Ensure consistent messaging and reinforce the training provided to employees, while building the understanding needed to effectively support them.
- Leadership Teams: Drive culture change from the top down.
Policies outline expectations, but employees often don’t understand why they exist or how to be compliant. ASAP bridges that gap with education, so policies are respected, not ignored. It transforms policies from “words on paper” into practices that keep people safe.