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SAN FRANCISCO MEDICINE June 2010
Volume 83, Number 5
Addiction and Recovery: From Neurons to National Policy
FEATURE ARTICLES
10 Physician Invictus
Don Kurth, MD
12 A Time of Critical Change: Drug Addiction, Addiction Services, and
Public Policy
Philip R. Lee, MD, and Dorothy Lee
14 San Francisco Roots: The Evolution of Addiction Medicine
David E. Smith, MD, FASAM, FAACT
16 Integrating Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment into
Primary Care
Robert M. McCarron, DO; Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD; and Caitlyn Meltvedt
18 Health Care Reform and Substance-Use Disorder Parity
Thomas J. Brady, MD, MBA
20 Adolescent Substance Abuse: A Blueprint for California
Timmen L. Cermak, MD
22 Marijuana Facts: The Risk of Addiction
Timmen L. Cermak, MD
24 Not the Right Prescription
Lynn Ponton, MD, and Sam Judice, MD
25 New Frontiers: Treatment for Homeless Substance Abusers under the
Mental Health Services Act
Barry Zevin, MD, and David Pating, MD
27 Opioid Analgesics: Addressing Risks and Benefits in Clinical Practice
for Treatment of Chronic, Nonmalignant Pain
Elinore F. McCance-Katz, MD, PhD
29 Proposition 36: Ten Years Later Can We Learn from Experience
Margaret Dooley-Sammuli and Peter Banys, MD, MSc
31 Big Alcohol’s New Products: New Media for Youth
Sarah Mart, MS, MPH
MONTHLY COLUMNS
4 Membership Matters
7 President’s Message
Michael Rokeach, MD, and Steve
Heilig, MPH
9 Editorial
David Pating, MD, and David E.
Smith, MD
40 Hospital News
38 In Memoriam
Nancy Thomson, MD
38 Classified Ad
OF INTEREST
36 Book Review: The Pain Behind
Addiction—and a Miracle Cure
Steve Heilig, MPH
37 Public Health Report:
SFDPH Public Sector Services for
Substance Abuse Disorders
Robert P. Cabaj, MD, and David
Hersh, MD
39 Book Review: In the Realm of
Hungry Ghosts
Erica Goode, MD
42 From the CMA Foundation:
Diabetes and Cardiovascular
Disease Guide for Physicians
Carol A. Lee, Esq.
33 Lessons in Urban Survival: A Hustler Tells All
Eisha Zaid
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