After spending the past 8 years in Arizona, I have moved back to my home town of Los Angeles, CA to begin a one year Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship through …
*Disclaimer: This was not an actual case, any similarities to actual patients is purely coincidental, this is a conglomeration of several typical cases I have seen. Rounding in the …
One of the most common questions my friends and family ask me about addiction is “What is the most dangerous drug?” There are certainly many metrics for quantifying the …
In Mad Men, characters often imbibed to spark their creativity.*Disclaimer: This was not an actual case, any similarities to actual patients is purely coincidental, this is a conglomeration of …
In my Huffington Post article, “Part 1: Do You Have Adult ADHD? A Psychiatrist Explains How You Can Tell” (link pending publication), I described the most recent updates to …
Around 100 Americans die from a drug overdose every day. On April 29, 2014, at the age of 22, Dylan David Hunter was one of those souls. However, like each …
I am very excited to share an original article written by a reader of my blog. Julia, a retired RN, reached out to me regarding her passion for helping …
Articles: General Addiction Topics: 1)What My Experience Working With Veterans can Teach us about Trauma, PTSD and Addiction 2) The Most Dangerous Drugs in the U.S. 3) Do Alcohol and Drugs …
One of the most common stories I hear from the Veterans I work with as part of my Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship is that their addictions spiraled out of control …
More than 60 million Americans struggle to get a good night sleep. That translates to almost 1 in 3 American adults struggling with insomnia, according to the American …