Michael Miller, MD

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Slideshows

In this podcast, Dr Michael Miller, Director of the American Board of Addiction Medicine, discusses addiction medicine, including the new ASAM, patient placement criteria, and DSM-5 changes.

Q&A: Addiction Medicine 

American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)

 In this  podcast, Dr Michael Miller discusses the clinical ramifications of the definition as well as the subsequent changes in patient assessment and treatment.

; Director of the American Board of Addiction Medicine; Medical Director of Herrington Recovery Center at Rogers Memorial Hospital; Vice Speaker of the Wisconsin Medical Society; Associate Clinical Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin; and Associate Clinical Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin.

Dr Miller oversaw the 4-year process of creating the definition, which involved a collaboration of over 80 experts in the field of 

. Addiction is a "primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry."

 As with diabetes and cardiovascular disease, it must be treated, managed, and monitored over a lifetime.

American Society of Addiction Medicine. Addiction is a chronic brain disease, not just bad behaviors or bad choices. 

http://www.asam.org/pdf/Advocacy/PressReleases/20110815_DefofAddiction-PR.pdf.

 August 15, 2011 press release.
 Accessed November 14, 2011.


American Society of Addiction Medicine. Public policy statement: definition of addiction. 

http://www.asam.org/DefinitionofAddiction-LongVersion.html

Podcasts

In this podcast, Dr Michael Miller discusses a new definition of addiction, released by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). 

Author | Michael Miller, MD

Articles

Q&A: Addiction Medicine

New Definition of Addiction: A Chronic Brain Disease