History of Addiction

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Julian Raffoul, MD, PhD, MBA, FACN, meet with A.J. Reid Finlayson, MD, DLFAPA, DFASAM, DFABAM, MMHC. They discuss the history of addiction in the United States, Dr. Finlayson’s personal experiences with addiction and psychiatric disorders, his experiences working as a family physician and coroner and consequent transition to psychiatry, Freud and Halsted, and thoughts on the future of addiction psychiatry and medicine. Also check out One Psychiatrist’s Journey, which discusses Dr. Finlayson’s personal history with bipolar disorder and addiction.   https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt-medicine/one-psychiatrists-journey/ 

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