Addiction Medicine

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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“FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION. Updated CV available at www.forensicaddictions.com. Consultation on issues relating to alcohol/drug use, addiction, gambling, etc. Active clinical practice for 3 decades in Addiction Medicine, broadly experienced. Direct clinical experience specializing in addictions, including government and private practice, both inpatient and outpatient withdrawal management, rehabilitation, co-occurring psychiatric disorders, corrections, methadone, buprenorphine, chronic pain, drug testing, impaired providers, gambling, and a wide array of addiction-related disorders. Board Certified in Addiction Medicine, Board Certified in Psychiatry. Distinguished Fellow, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Editor of perhaps the most read Addiction Medicine textbook worldwide, and for 4 editions over a 20-year span. Previously served 10 years as co-founding Co-Editor of a leading addiction medicine journal. Roughly 90 scholarly medical publications. Awards for clinical practice, teaching, clinical research, military service. Services to the addiction medicine field memorialized in their history book. Opinions sought by Dateline NBC News, Pravda, U.S. News & World Report, etc. 20 years of service as a United States Air Force Officer (retired); earned the Meritorious Service Medal twice, deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Led the Tri-Service Addiction Recovery Center – the worldwide tertiary referral center for the diagnosis and treatment of addiction-related disorders within the Department of Defense (DoD). Hand-picked by the DoD as the Lead Editor/Author for a first-ever VA-DoD clinical practice guideline for the management of substance use disorders. Previously deemed by the courts as an expert witness for the following issues: addiction medicine, psychiatry, drug testing, gambling addiction, cough medicine addiction, and for a variety of addictive drugs and related issues. Previously retained as an expert witness throughout the USA and in Europe. Both sides of the bar, civil & criminal, deposition & testimony experience. ”