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ABOUT US
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The goal of the Division of Addiction Medicine is to develop a new awareness
in the medical community of the significance of the role of prevention,
intervention and treatment in nicotine, alcohol and other drug use.
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The Division of Addiction Medicine also seeks to improve the
quality of life and reduce suffering associated with addiction. This is
accomplished by enhancing the understanding and competency in Addiction
Medicine and drug prevention education of medical students, medical
residents, primary care practitioners and psychiatric specialists.
The Division of Addiction Medicine has experienced tremendous growth
within the Department of psychiatry starting with one faculty member
working on a unified neurobiological theory for all drugs of abuse and
new treatments for cigarette smokers. We now have programs ranging from
Brain Institute bench to clinical bedside.
The diversity of training in our Addiction Medicine Fellowship has
allowed our graduates to move forward in a variety of different
endeavors such as: chief of addiction psychiatry at a major veteran's
hospital, child psychiatry fellow, clinical director of child and
adolescent addiction, forensic psychiatrist, medical director of an
academic-public addiction service provider, and academic medical
director of non-invasive pain clinic.
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