Effects of Trauma and Substance Abuse on Youth Friday and Saturday, March 12th and 13th, 2004 Keynote Speaker: David Smith, MD 
|
Effects of Trauma and Substance Abuse on Youth Friday and Saturday, March 12th and 13th, 2004 Keynote Speaker: David Smith, MD
|
Dr. Smith founded the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics in June of 1967. He works with impaired health professionals in his private practice, David E. Smith, MD & Associates, in San Francisco. He is Former Executive Medical Director of the Prometa Center, in Santa Monica, California and is a past President of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and of the California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM). Dr. Smith is the Founder and Executive Editor of the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.Dr. Smith is recognized as a national leader in the areas of the treatment of addictive disease, the psychopharmacology of drugs, new research strategies in the management of drug abuse problems, and appropriate prescribing practices for physicians. He lectures on the management, legal implications and repercussions of dependence on psychoactive drugs, including cocaine, alcohol and prescription drugs. He also speaks on the subjects of impaired and recovering physicians, substance abuse in the workplace and dual diagnosis disorders.He teaches that addiction is a primary medical illness which is best treated in a multidisciplinary integrated fashion with an abstinence-oriented model of recovery utilizing the group process and the 12-Step programs of Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Cocaine Anonymous as central to the process of recovery.