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Pro Talk Contributors
Adi Jaffe
Dr. Jaffe received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2010. Even before he graduated Dr. Jaffe’s name had become known through his online and academic writing. His views on addiction and his research on... Read More
Adrienne Keller
Aimee Runyon
Alexandre Laudet
Alexandre B. Laudet, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in addiction recovery. Her federally funded research in the past 15 years focuses on elucidating what helps people with drugs and/or alcohol problems quit drinking or getting high, and what... Read More
Alexis Green
Alexis Stein
Alexis Stein is a psychotherapist with a private practice in New York City. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has years of experience in the field of addiction and specializes in individuals, couples, and group therapy. Previously,... Read More
Allen Frances
Dr. Allen Frances is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and former Chair at Duke University. He was previously chair of the DSM IV Task Force and played an instrumental role in the preparation of DSM III.
He was described by... Read More
Allie Holbrooke
Amanda Lautieri
Amanda Lautieri is a Senior Content Editor at American Addiction Centers. She has more than 10 years of professional editing experience that includes working as a web editor for several major online publishers and editing medical content ranging from... Read More
Amy Williams
Amy Williams is a pseudonym for a 22-year-old female student in Indiana. Read More
Andre Alay
Andrew Tatarsky
Andrew Tatarsky is an internationally recognized leader in the treatment of substance misuse and other potentially risky behaviors. He has specialized in the field of substance use treatment for 30 years working as a counselor, psychologist, program director, trainer,... Read More
Anne Fletcher
Anne M. Fletcher is frequently sought out by the media, as well as professional and consumer groups, for her knowledge about behavior change, addiction, recovery, and weight management. For her latest book, Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth About Addiction... Read More
April Smith
April Wilson Smith, MPH, is a PhD student in Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Her research focuses on harm reduction approaches to people who use substances when they enter the healthcare system.
April's other interest in healthcare is... Read More
Arnold M. Washton
Arnold M. Washton, Ph.D., is co-founder and executive director of Compass Health Group in New York City, a collaborative team of physicians and psychologists providing integrated treatment for addiction, psychiatric disorders, and general medical conditions. A well-known addiction psychologist... Read More
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Ed.D., Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been treating clients for more than 35 years. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Massachusetts Psychological Association. Currently in private practice, Dr.... Read More
Barry Lessin
Barry Lessin is an addiction psychologist and public health advocate with a career spanning almost 40 years as a clinician, administrator, educator, and researcher.
He has a private practice with offices in Philadelphia and the suburbs, working with teenagers, young... Read More
Beth Sanders
Beth Sanders, LCSW, LCAS, MAC, CCS is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years’ experience in the addictions and mental health fields. She has a passion for assisting individuals in the journey of recovery, and has additional... Read More
Beth Wilson
Bradley F. Sorte
Bradley F. Sorte holds a Masters of Social Work degree and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Florida Atlantic University, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Rice University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Legal... Read More
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Carolyn Ross
Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross is a nationally known author, speaker and expert in the field of Eating Disorders and Integrative Medicine. She has written Healing Body, Mind and Spirit: An Integrative Medicine Approach to the Treatment of Eating Disorders... Read More
Cassandra Keuma, MA
Cassandra Keuma is a Licensed Practical Counselor Candidate. She has her Masters of Arts in Clinical Mental Health and is also a 500 hour certified Yoga Therapist.
Her clinical experience includes youth corrections where she worked with both the general... Read More
Cathy Taughinbaugh
Cathy Taughinbaugh is a Certified Parent Coach who specializes in working with parents of children struggling with substance use.
She is also a parent coach with the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids and creator of www.cathytaughinbaugh.com, a website providing information for... Read More
Chris Conrad
Chris Conrad is a court-qualified expert witness on cannabis (marijuana) who has testified more than 200 times in state, military and federal courts. He is also an expert on industrial hemp, religious and medical cannabis use. A curator of... Read More
Christine Brewer
Christine Brewer has over 20 years of experience in substance use disorders, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, disaster mental health, trauma, EMDR, and therapy with individuals, groups, couples, and families.
Her clinical experience includes gerontology, at-risk youth, homicide bereavement, dual diagnosis,... Read More
Corinne O'Keefe Osborn
Corinne O’Keefe Osborn is an award-winning, Boston-based journalist specializing inorganic content writing. Her most recent work focuses on psychology and addiction.She has an excellent understanding of psychology and is able to turn complex material into approachable and informational content.... Read More
Dan Wagener
Dan Wagener is a Senior Web Content Editor for American Addiction Centers. Prior to taking on this role, he worked for a government contractor in the Washington, D.C. area, where he edited websites for the Substance Abuse and Mental... Read More
Dane O'Leary
David L. Katz
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP is the founding director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center; President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Childhood Obesity; and director of the Integrative Medicine Center at... Read More
David Rubenstein
Dr. Rubenstein is a human health innovator. He has developed a safe and reliable system of health transformation called The Rubenstein Method that reverses a myriad of stress types within the body and brain.
Dr. Rubenstein provides engaging lectures... Read More
David A. Wiss
David Wiss, MS, RDN, CPT, grew up in Los Angeles, graduating from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science. He earned a Master’s Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics at California State University, Northridge, and... Read More
Debra Rothschild
Debra Rothschild is a licensed clinical psychologist, a credentialed alcoholism and substance abuse counselor, and a certified psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is a clinical associate professor of psychology (adjunct), and a graduate of... Read More
Destiny Lopez
American Addiction Centers Editorial Staff
The editorial staff of Rehabs.com is comprised of addiction content experts from American Addiction Centers. Our editors and medical reviewers have over a decade of cumulative experience in medical content editing and have reviewed thousands of pages for accuracy... Read More
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Emily Guarnotta
Emily Guarnotta holds a doctorate degree in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. She has a passion for working with clients struggling with substance abuse and mental health issues and her treatment approach includes providing evidence-based... Read More
Emily Mendez, MS, EdS
Emily Mendez is a mental health writer and expert with more than a decade of experience in mental health and substance abuse. As a former private practice psychotherapist, Emily specialized in treating adults and children suffering from depression, anxiety... Read More
Eric S. Dresdale
Eric Dresdale is the founder and CEO of Next Step Network, LLC, which is the company behind the Next Step MasterCard. Next Step was founded in 2011 after Eric completed treatment for addiction. Eric is responsible for... Read More
Eric Maisel
Dr. Eric Maisel is the author of more than 40 books in the areas of creativity, meaning and mental health. He is widely regarded as America’s foremost creativity coach and has recently developed natural psychology, the new psychology of... Read More
Eric Patterson
A professional counselor, Eric Patterson has been helping children, adolescents, and adults reach their goals and improve their well-being for over 10 years.
Eric has also worked as a collaborating investigator for the field trials of the DSM-5 and he... Read More
Sam Deford
Frederick Rotgers
Frederick Rotgers is a Licensed Psychologist and Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor in New Jersey. He earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, where he is currently an adjunct... Read More
Gayle A. Dakof
Dr. Gayle Dakof is a scientist, clinician and family advocate. She is the Director of MDFT International, a 501(c)(3) public charity devoted to the training, dissemination and implementation of Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT), an evidence-based treatment for adolescent substance... Read More
Blog Team
Helen Farrell
Helen M. Farrell, M.D., is a physician, expert witness, keynote speaker and writer. She is an award-winning Harvard Medical School Instructor in psychiatry. Dr. Farrell is a medical graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where she was... Read More
Howard Meitiner
A native of England, Howard Meitiner began his retail career in 1970 with the Debenham Department Store Group as a management trainee and rose through the organization to the position of General Manager of the Debenhams Oxford Street flagship... Read More
Ian McLoone
Ian McLoone, MPS, LPCC, LADC provides integrated care for substance use disorders and mental health to patients at Alltyr Clinic in St Paul, Minnesota. He earned a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota’s Integrated Behavioral Health clinical counseling... Read More
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Jaclyn Schuon
Jaclyn Schuon earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Georgia School of Professional Psychology and she has been a licensed psychologist in the state of Georgia since 2009.
She has extensive experience providing psychological services to college students and... Read More
Jacquelyn Buffo
Jacquelyn Buffo is a fully Licensed Professional Counselor through the State of Michigan and a Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor. She received her Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling from Capella University. She has worked as a clinician... Read More
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Jeffrey T. Junig
Jeffrey Junig is a psychiatrist in private practice in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He lectures at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and provides psychiatric services for the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Student Health Center. He writes about opioid dependence... Read More
Jenifer Talley
Jenifer Talley, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of trauma and substance misuse from an integrative harm reduction framework. Dr. Talley has expertise in providing mindfulness-based interventions and has conducted several trainings on the integration... Read More
Jessica Brock-Pitts
Jessica Brock-Pitts is a therapist with experience in treating substance use disorders and mental health issues. She has a Master of Social Work and is a License Clinical Social Worker.
Jessica's clinical experience has included dual diagnosis outpatient, severe mental... Read More
Joe Koelzer
Joe Koelzer is a co-founder of The Clearing, a non 12 Step rehab focused on addressing the underlying core issues which fuel substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and other challenges to our mental health. He has years of counseling experience... Read More
John F. Kelly
Dr. John F. Kelly is the Elizabeth R. Spallin Associate Professor of Psychiatry in Addiction Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Program Director of the Addiction Recovery Management Service (ARMS), Director of the Recovery Research... Read More
Joseph Houchins, MA
Originally from Texas, Joe moved to Boston in 2013 to attend Boston University’s M.A. psychology program. His coursework was of a clinical focus, including abnormal psychology, statistics, personality, clinical psychology and neuroscience. Joe was also a teaching... Read More
Joslyn Jelinek
Joslyn Jelinek, LCSW, RDDP is a clinical social worker practicing in Chicago, IL and Southwest Michigan. In 20 years of practice, her clinical specialties include substance abuse, perinatal mood disorders and anxiety. Her approach is holistic and dynamic and... Read More
Judson Brewer
Judson Brewer M.D. Ph.D. is a thought leader in the “science of self-mastery,” having combined over 15 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, spoken at... Read More
Katherine Schreiber
Katherine Schreiber, co-author of The Truth About Exercise Addiction, is a writer and editor based in New York City. Her work has been published by Psychology Today, Cosmopolitan, TIME, Greatist.com, and PsychCentral.com.
In 2015, she received her Masters of... Read More
Katie MacBride
Keith McAdam
Keith McAdam is a behavioral health provider with an integrated, harm reduction based dual-diagnosis program with the Duke Infectious Diseases Clinic and the Wake County Human Services HIV Clinic, through funding from the Ryan White CARE Act and SAMHSA.... Read More
Kelsey Galles
Kelsey Galles is a content marketing specialist at Recovery Brands where she strategizes impactful ways to connect people struggling with addiction to educational resources and treatment options. Kelsey studied at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism where she earned... Read More
Kenneth Anderson
Kenneth Anderson, M.A. is the author of the book How to Change Your Drinking: a Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol – a self-help manual for safer drinking, reduced drinking, or quitting alcohol altogether. Mr. Anderson is also the founder... Read More
Kerry Nenn
Kevin A. Sabet
Kevin A. Sabet, Ph.D. has studied, researched, and written about drug policy, drug markets, drug prevention, drug treatment, criminal justice policy, addiction, and public policy analysis for almost 18 years. In 2000, he served in the Office of National... Read More
Kevin Murphy
Dr. Kevin Murphy, a licensed psychologist, is the Clinical Director at The Men's Residence. His professional history includes expertise in individual and group therapy to treat those with dual diagnosis conditions (addiction and mental health problems); therapy with forensic... Read More
Kindra Sclar
Kindra Sclar is a Senior Web Content Editor for American Addiction Centers and Rehabs.com. Before joining the company, she worked for more than 8 years as a print and web editor for several print and online publishers. Kindra has... Read More
Kindra Sclar
Kindra Sclar is a Senior Web Content Editor for American Addiction Centers. Before joining the company, she worked for more than 8 years as a print and web editor for several print and online publishers. Kindra has worked on... Read More
Kristina Ackermann
Kristina Ackermann is the Director of Content at American Addiction Centers and an expert in the field of substance abuse. She has over a decade of medical editing and leadership experience, with a bachelor's degree from the University of... Read More
Kristy Snyder, BA
After graduating from Allegheny College with a bachelor’s degree in English, Kristy Snyder dove into the world of freelance writing and editing to forge herself a career. Today, she’s an experienced and talented wordsmith who specializes in many healthcare... Read More
Lance Dodes
Lance Dodes, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and has retired from his position as assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author or co-author... Read More
Lara Okoloko
Lara Okoloko, LICSW is a clinical social worker in private practice in Seattle, Washington, specializing in treating the family members of people with substance use disorders. Working mostly with parents of young adults with addictions and mental health struggles,... Read More
Lauren Brande
Lauren Brande, MA, has dedicated her life to psychological research. She started off her career with a scholarship from the Western Psychological Association for her undergraduate work in perceptual processing. In 2014, she achieved her master of arts in... Read More
Lauren Muhlheim
Lauren Muhlheim, Psy.D., CEDS is a psychologist who provides evidence-based psychotherapy for adults and adolescents.
In graduate school she trained at the Rutgers Eating Disorder Clinic under G. Terence Wilson, Ph.D. who (along with Christopher Fairburn) was instrumental in developing... Read More
Lauren Villa
Lauren Villa is a Web Content Writer at Recovery Brands. Before joining the company, she served as the Program Director for a community-based HIV/AIDS and cancer non-profit in San Francisco. Read More
Lindsay Curtis
Lindsay Curtis is a freelance health writer with 20 years of writing and strategic communications experience. In addition to writing for global health and wellness brands, she has worked with universities, physicians, nurses, and researchers to translate their work... Read More
Leah Miller, MHC
Leah Miller is a mental health counselor and trained alcohol and substance abuse counselor. She has had clinical experience in both inpatient and outpatient treatment and has also helped those with severe mental illness in residential and community settings.
Leah... Read More
Leah Walker
Leah Walker is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She earned a master’s degree in Family Studies and a PhD in Family Relations. She has over 20 years of clinical experience working with children adolescents and adults. She has... Read More
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Linda Hatch
Linda Hatch has had a long career in clinical psychology including teaching, research, student counseling, child psychology and crisis intervention. In addition she worked for many years through the court system evaluating sex offenders, sexually violent predators and mentally... Read More
Lisa Najavits
Lisa M. Najavits, PhD, is professor of psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; and lecturer, Harvard Medical School. She is a research psychologist at Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System and the Bedford VA; clinical associate, McLean Hospital; and... Read More
Liz Karter
Liz Karter is a therapist in addiction, specializing in gambling addiction and women, practicing since 2001. Liz is the author of the book Women and Problem Gambling and her second book Working with Women’s Groups for Problem Gambling: Treating... Read More
Marc Romano
Marc J. Romano is a Licensed Psychologist, a Board Certified Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in Mental Health for the entire life span, and a Certified Addiction Professional in Florida. He is also a Licensed Healthcare Risk Manager... Read More
Marc Lewis
Marc Lewis, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and professor of developmental psychology, recently at the University of Toronto, where he taught and conducted research from 1989 to 2010, and presently at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He is the author... Read More
Marisa Crane
Before working at Recovery Brands, Marisa worked as a Behavioral Health Worker for urban youth in the school setting and as a Mental Health Worker for adolescents in a partial hospitalization program, where she worked closely with therapists to... Read More
Mark D. Schenker
Mark Schenker, Ph.D. has been a licensed psychologist for over 30 years, and has spent the majority of his career in the addiction treatment field. He began in the mental health arena in 1972, as an aide at McLean... Read More
Mark Griffiths
Dr. Mark Griffiths is a Chartered Psychologist and Professor of Gambling Studies at the Nottingham Trent University, and Director of the International Gaming Research Unit. He has spent over 25 years in the field and is internationally known for... Read More
Mark Kleiman
Mark Kleiman is Professor of Public Policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, where he teaches methods of policy analysis, crime control, and drug policy. He is the editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis,... Read More
Mark Willenbring
Mark Willenbring, M.D., the founder and CEO of Alltyr is the former Director of the Division of Treatment and Recovery Research of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda,... Read More
Marni Greenberg
Marni Greenberg is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in California (License # PSY23970) with a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. She opened her private practice in the summer of 2011 after 10 years of experience working for non-profit agencies in... Read More
Marni Low
Marni Low is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and (Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) in the state of New York. Marni has over 13 years experience providing comprehensive mental health and substance abuse services... Read More
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Melissa Mills
Melissa Mills is a Registered Nurse and Case Manager that has dedicated her career to assisting clients in finding the right care at the right time. She received her Nursing Degree in 1998 and went on to obtain her... Read More
Meredith Watkins
Meredith Watkins is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in dual diagnoses and eating disorders. She has worked as a clinical editor for online addictions journals and websites, and ghostwritten for numerous medical and addictions professionals. Read More
Michael V. Pantalon
Like you, Dr. Pantalon, addiction and motivation expert, is frustrated with how difficult it is to find good addiction treatment. In fact, only 1 out of every 10 people is in any formal addiction treatment and fewer still are... Read More
Mike Pond
Mike Pond is a Vancouver, Canada-based psychotherapist, in-demand speaker, author and advocate for compassionate, evidence-based treatment for all who suffer from substance use disorders. Pond’s riveting account of his own trip to rock bottom and back gives him unique... Read More
Mitch Earleywine
Mitch Earleywine, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Albany. He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University and his doctorate from Indiana University. Mitch has over 100 publications in scientific journals on... Read More
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Myles B. Schlam
Myles B Schlam is an Attorney at Law in the State of Florida specializing in criminal defense and the Florida Marchman Act. He graduated from Florida Atlantic University for undergrad in ’95 where he earned a degree in criminal... Read More
Nadia Ghaffari
Nadia is an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley with a passion for youth mental health advocacy. In 2016, she founded the 501c3 nonprofit TeenzTalk after her own experience with aiding in the prevention of her close friend's suicide.
TeenzTalk... Read More
Nicole Arzt, MS, LMFT
Nicole Arzt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in providing psychotherapy for individuals, families, and groups struggling with substance use disorders and psychiatric illnesses. She received her Master of Science from California State University, Long Beach in... Read More
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Omar Manejwala
Dr. Omar Manejwala is passionate about helping people to understand addiction. As one of the nation’s leading experts on addiction, Dr. Omar offers insight and analysis on news developments related to addiction and mental health. He speaks to audiences... Read More
Paul Hokemeyer
Dr. Paul Hokemeyer is a Manhattan and Malibu, CA based Marriage and Family Therapist who serves on the panel of experts for "The Dr. Oz Show" and as a Fox News Analyst. In addition, he is the Senior Clinical... Read More
Paul J. Gallant
Paul J. Gallant MC, LPC, BRI-II, CIP is an independent, Masters level, licensed professional counselor, board registered interventionist and certified intervention professional. He is the CEO and founder of Primary Recovery Services, a member of the Association of Intervention... Read More
Peg O'Connor
Peg O’Connor, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Her new book, Life on the Rocks: Finding Meaning in Addiction and Recovery (Central Recovery Press, 2016) is... Read More
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Polly E. Drew
Polly E. Drew, M.Ed., LCSW, LMFT, is a psychotherapist who specializes in relationship, marital and family issues. She has been honored locally and nationally for her contributions to the field of mental health and marriage and family therapy. Drew... Read More
Rai Cornell
Rai ("Ray") Cornell, M.A., is a freelance health, psychology, and science writer.
Before working with Recovery Brands, she worked as a substance abuse and mental health counselor in a drug rehabilitation center and at a community counseling clinic. She has... Read More
Raychelle Cassada Lohmann
Raychelle Lohmann has been a counselor since 1998. She has done extensive research in the domain of anger management and careers. She is a published author and enjoys speaking and presenting at conferences and facilitating workshops.
As a school... Read More
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Rita Milios
Rita Milios, LCSW, "The Mind Mentor," combines the science of neuro-biology, traditional psychotherapy techniques, and spiritual growth techniques gleaned from ancient wisdom traditions to help people re-program old, entrenched, self-defeating habits and attitudes and successfully treat anxiety, depression, addictions... Read More
Robert Lefever
Dr. Robert Lefever is a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and The Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London. After winning a singing scholarship and hoping to become a professional musician, he found greater happiness as a family physician.... Read More
Robert Schwebel
Robert Schwebel is a clinical psychologist who wrote and developed The Seven Challenges®. It is an evidence-based comprehensive counseling program that incorporates work on drug problems, first designed for adolescents and young adults, and now adapted for adults of... Read More
Robert Weiss
Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S is Senior Vice President of Clinical Development with Elements Behavioral Health. A licensed UCLA MSW graduate and personal trainee of Dr. Patrick Carnes, he founded The Sexual Recovery Institute in Los Angeles in 1995. He... Read More
Roger A. Roffman
Roger A. Roffman, DSW, is a Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Washington and the founding director (1985) of the School’s Innovative Programs Research Group. With funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the... Read More
Rory C. Reid
Rory C. Reid, Ph.D., LCSW is considered one of a few international experts on hypersexual behavior with over 15 years of clinical and research experience. He has published more peer-reviewed scientific articles on this topic than anyone else in... Read More
Royce White
Royce White is the founder and acting CEO of Anxious Minds, LLC, an organization dedicated to the global acceptance and progress of mental health. Royce gained considerable support in the health community as a public advocate for mental health... Read More
Ryan Kelley, NREMT
Ryan Kelley is a nationally registered Emergency Medical Technician and the former managing editor of the Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS). During his time at JEMS, Ryan developed Mobile Integrated Healthcare in Action, a series of in-depth articles... Read More
Sally Chew
Sally Chew is a lesbian journalist based in New York City. She has been an editor at Time Inc.’s Health.com as well as at Vibe, Out and POZ magazines. She has also authored a true crime book and worked... Read More
Sarah Wood, BA
Sarah Wood is a freelance content writer with a BA in Writing and more than 10 years of writing experience. Sarah has written on many topics, but they find the most fulfillment in writing about mental health, wellness, and... Read More
Scot Thomas, MD
Dr. Scot Thomas received his medical degree from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. During his medical studies, Dr. Thomas saw firsthand the multitude of lives impacted by struggles with substance abuse and addiction, motivating him... Read More
Sean X. Luo
Sean X. Luo, M.D., Ph.D. is a researcher and a psychiatrist. His is currently a NIH-NIDA T32 Clinical Research Fellow and a Leon Levy Neuroscience Fellow in the Division of Substance Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and The... Read More
Sherilyn Moore
Sherilyn Moore is a freelance writer with over 10 years of experience. She has dual bachelor’s degrees in English and Communications and an Inbound Marketing Certificate from HubSpot Academy. She has written for a wide variety of industries, including... Read More
Sophie Stein, MSN
Sophie Stein received her master’s of science in nursing from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She previously worked as an advanced practice registered nurse at an outpatient psychiatric practice providing mental health care for children, adolescents, and adults. She... Read More
Stacy Mosel
Stacy Mosel is a licensed social worker, psychotherapist and substance abuse specialist. After receiving a Bachelor's degree in Music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, she continued her studies at New York University, earning a... Read More
Stanton Peele
Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., is the author (with Ilse Thompson) of Recover! An Empowering Program to Help You Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life. He was clinical director and designer of the Life Process Program... Read More
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Tom Horvath
A. Tom Horvath, Ph.D., is California licensed psychologist (PSY7732) and a board certified clinical psychologist by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is the founder and owner of Practical Recovery, a self-empowering addiction treatment system in San Diego.... Read More
Trish Farley
Trish Farley is an anti-oppressive social worker, consultant, trainer and community organizer based in New York City. With over a decade of experience in nonprofit programs, her working knowledge draws from building relationships in a variety of settings: schools,... Read More
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Veronica Valli
Veronica Valli has worked as a therapist and life coach specializing in addiction for over ten years; her experience includes working with young people in the criminal justice system, primary care adult treatment and private practice in London, UK.... Read More
Walter Ling
Dr. Walter Ling is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and the founding director of the Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP) at UCLA, one of the foremost substance abuse research groups in the US. He is board certified in neurology... Read More
