Dr. Ruth Fox, founder of ASAM - Did research in Mind ControlASAM, Dr. Ruth Fox ‘s legacy is this collusion with private contracts with governmental agencies and private corporations for non NIH research. Dr. Ruth Fox’s Project MK-ULTRA a CIA mind control program was first brought to wide public attention in 1975 by the U.S. Congress, through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. George Herbert Walker Bush was CIA Director from January 30, 1976 – January 20, 1977. Over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, and native Americans. Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." This was sanctioned governmental human rights abuses done by these LSD researchers and sometimes resulted in permanent disability and even death. The CIA itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense and monitoring was not done qualified scientific observers.
Medical doctors are necessary to manipulate public policy and to further the financial interests of the criminal enterprise of Straight and its progeny, which use vulnerable patients for profits while ignoring patient's real needs and fostering a system of abusive human rights violations. So high level medical doctors were used to provide legitimacy such as former White House drug czars Robert DuPont, MD (a former paid Straight consultant) and Donald Ian MacDonald, MD (Straight's former national medical research director) who are members of the International Scientific and Medical Forum on Drug Abuse (a DFAF subsidiary). Richard Schwartz, MD, former medical research director for Straight - Springfield is another forum member.
The predecessor of Straight Inc. the Seed opened for business in June 1970 in Florida.?? The Seed was a substance abuse treatment center for adolescents and children. So in 1970 with a start up grant for $1 million dollars from the federal government's NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse )--a subsidiary of the sprawling NIMH (National Institue of Mental Health) the Seed program was established. Melvin Sembler's son was enrolled in Seed and Melvin Sembler, (personal friend to George H. W. Bush), became President of the Board of Straight Inc. Director of NIDA, psychiatrist Robert L. DuPont, Jr. had approved the grant.
The American Society of Addiction Medicine was "founded" by Dr. Ruth Fox, the architect of the Straight Inc. rehabilitation centers and the guru of mind control techniques using abusive coercive control and experimental LSD drug therapy. The CIA had experimented with LSD on prisoners at the NIH's lock-up hospital in Lexington, Kentucky where NIH had set up its own experimental program called MATRIX.
Ruth Fox was the founder of ASAM — The American Society for Addiction Medicine — that exists to promote A.A. and the 12-Step treatment of alcoholism, this is done by pretending to give doctors helpful advice about what works to treat or cure alcoholism. Dr. Ruth Fox, Medical Director of the National Council on Alcoholism in the United States, had used LSD in alcoholic rehabilitation. She endorsed the use of the drug LSD for therapeutic use. She claimed that LSD made the experimental subjects have a new feeling of compassion and tenderness for others. Dr. Ruth Fox also felt that LSD was very helpful in changing alcoholics' thinking and behavior: “LSD does seem to make the patient more willing to undertake the total program necessary for his recovery. After LSD most of the patients who formerly refused to cooperate were willing to take disulfiram, attend group therapy and to affiliate with A.A.” Ruth Fox, Alcoholism, Behavioral Research, Therapeutic Approaches, 1967, page 775, quoted in Slaying the Dragon, William L. White, page 229.
And Dr. Ruth Fox was such a unethical research scientist that she gave her patients disulfiram and then alcohol, to deliberately make them very sick, in an attempt to build up an aversion to alcohol. Even after she discovered that the aversion therapy didn't work, and even after one patient nearly died from an almost fatal reaction to a single ounce of alcohol, she still insisted on giving each patient at least one session of being sick from the disulfiram/alcohol combination, before she released them from the hospital. (See: Disulfiram (Antabuse) as an Adjunct in the Treatment of Alcoholism, Dr. Ruth Fox, in Alcoholism: Behavioral Research, Therapeutic Approaches, edited by Ruth Fox, M.D., foreword by 'Mrs.' Marty Mann, Springer Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1967.)
The ASAM still collects financial donations to the Ruth Fox Endowment Fund and sends the money overseas where the prying eyes of the FBI can't follow it. The money of the Ruth Rox Endowment fund is used to pay for continuing education (courses about ASAM philosophy and to fund scholarships for FASAM interns and doctors).
These techniques of using drugs to force compliance out of patients became the hallmark of the new AA, and American Society of Addiction Medicine programs. The American Society of Addiction Medicine even wrote their own book based in part on Ruth Fox's pioneering treatment of alcoholics with LSD. No mention is made of the patients who became permanently psychotic or committed suicide under her LSD treatment. No accounting for violations of civil rights, privacy or human rights.
This historical abuse of human subjects by substance abuse treatment doctors was well documented in the Congressional Church Committee report and the Rockefeller Commission. (Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, United States Senate, 94th Congress, 2nd Session, April 26 (legislative day, April 14), 1976.) The published evidence indicated that Project MKULTRA involved the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methods, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function on US and Canadian citizens. Over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." Dr. Ruth Fox, founder of the ASAM, utilized a variety of drugs including LSD on alcoholics, homeless persons, enlisted military personnel and even on unsuspecting public citizens, as part of CIA research into mind control. LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject's knowledge or informed consent, a violation of the Nuremberg Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after World War II. The congressional committee investigating the CIA research, chaired by Senator Frank Church, concluded that "Prior consent was obviously not obtained from any of the subjects". Following the recommendations of the Church Committee, President Gerald Ford in 1976 issued the first Executive Order on Intelligence Activities which, among other things, prohibited "experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with the informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested party, of each such human subject" and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the National Commission. Subsequent orders by Presidents Carter and Reagan expanded the directive to apply to any human experimentation.
The coercive violence of the Straight program lived on in a series of other rehabilitation centers long after the United States Congress had ordered the organization shut down for human rights abuses. The Federation of State Physicians Health Programs came from the state chapters of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. So the Washington Physicians Health Program is the former Washington State Chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Surprising to most doctors is that the Federation of State Physicians Health Programs has a State Physicians Health Program in almost every state. This State Physician Health Program is a non governmental organization with tax exempt status and incorporated to limit their Board of Directors from liability. The State Physician Health Program is now the predominant investigator of any medical professional who might be "impaired" or even a "disruptive doctor". Under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act there does not even need to be valid legal evidence to remove a doctors license. Thus doctors, nurses, pharmacists, chiropractors, dentists, and even veterinarians are now controlled by this organization which is the grandchild of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. It's practices are related closely to those of the leaders of the Straight Inc and Seed rehabilitation centers. The same web of patient abuse behind closed doors has now gained official status as a governing agency watchdog with coercive control over medical professional's licenses through "monitoring" and investigation.
The human behavior experiments were strongly condemned by the US Congress but the financial association of her and her colleagues with private funding from undisclosed sources continued unabated. The ASAM doctors who had lost their medical licenses were more than eager to be reinstated as doctors in order to perform research in newly established substance abuse residential treatment centers and to use drugs on captive patients without proper informed consent. Who could complain, certainly not the “addicted” patients. So the pharmaceutical companies found “human subjects” who were controllable and who could be forced in locked facilities to take these experimental drugs.
In return for cooperating with the pharmaceutical industries corporate goals there would be political influence exerted to soften certain legislative language to facilitate the ASAM doctors to regain their medical licenses permanently and to erase their soiled records of addictive behaviors and criminal activity. The ASAM strategically analyzed how to circumvent the medical quality control system that was preventing them from expunging the addiction behavior from their records. A Federation of State Physicians Health Program’s committee was established for monitoring the addicted ASAM members who wanted their medical licenses back. This FSPHP monitoring committee was made up of addicts themselves and a few non addicts, but after several years the non addicts dropped out and the addicts were monitoring themselves. When it was politically expedient the monitoring committee just decided that every addict in the group who had been previously monitored didn’t need to be monitored anymore and the committee was just disbanded and discontinued. All the addicts were deemed “cured” of their addiction and not needing any more monitoring. Thus a clean record expunged of all past compulsive and criminal behavior was created. This coupled with legislative actions at the state level in several states was then were used to hide from the public the criminal past infractions and inappropriate behavior of the ASAM members. A few states – notably Texas and Georgia were particularly favorable to former addicts having the court system erase previous criminal infractions.
For example in Atlanta, Georgia, Judge Marsh actually co-owed the Talbott Marsh Recovery Center with the former ASAM President George Douglas Talbott. Judge Marsh court ordered “impaired” persons to be incarcerated in the Talbott Marsh Recovery Center for “treatment” and also made judgment on sealing records of past addictive behaviors of those deemed “cured” by Dr. George Douglas Talbott. Dr. George Douglas Talbott was known for severe abusive behavior which led to the suicide deaths of many medical professionals under his “monitoring” program. While ASAM President of the Board, he was successfully sued by Dr. Leon Masters for false imprisonment and abusive treatment.
The ASAM addicted doctors were not only “cured” but now they had also established a system of substance abuse “monitoring” through the Federation of State Physicians Health Programs which they attempted to put in place in every state in the USA. Through contracts with the state departments of health, they established themselves as the only competitor for state funding through medical licensing fees. With generous outside funding from non disclosed sources, the ASAM doctors were able to effectively underbid others for these substance abuse treatment monitoring functions. Thus doctors so addicted that their own medical licenses were removed or curtailed were now placing themselves to be the monitors of every licensed medical doctor within the USA. With an aggressive and expensive advertising campaign through medical and nursing association journals the newly established Physicians Health Programs presented themselves as advocates for “impaired physicians” and suggested to everyone in the medical field to “turn in” other doctors, nurses, dentists, chiropractors, pharmacists etc to be “monitored” by the Physicians Health Program. Deliberately targeting allied professionals such as non-medically trained assistants, office managers, and paraprofessional staff to “snitch on doctors”, the ASAM found target doctors to force into their abusive monitoring system. So the addicts are now collecting gossip, rumor and outright fabrications against licensed medical doctors and privately investigating the personal lives and backgrounds of those doctors. Any criminal could make a complaint against a doctor and expect to have the Physicians Health Program dig up dirt on their competitor or whistleblower. In addition ASAM embraced not just substance abusing doctors (alcoholics and drug addicts) but also "sex addicts" and compulsive gamblers as members of their growing non-profit organization. These "sex addicts" were monitored by other "sex addicts" and deemed "cured" or "recovered" and placed back into medical practice with no warning to patients about their past sexually compulsive histories.
To demonstrate why this is dangerous to potential patients one has only to look at the Teen Challenge hiring practices. Teen Challenge is a residential substance abuse treatment center for teens.
A convicted Sex Offender Heads Teen Challenge in Maine. Registered Sex Offender Shondi Fabiano and her husband, Peter, are the directors of the Teen Challenge in Winthrop, Maine. Shondi Fabiano was convicted of Second Degree Child Molestation in Rhode Island. She is listed on the National Sex Offender Public Registry.
http://www.nsopr.govMaine Teen Challenge Hired Another Convicted Sex Offender. Registered Sex Offender Dennis Knox has joined Shondi Fabiano as the second rapist employed by the Teen Challenge in Winthrop, Maine. Dennis Knox, age 35 was convicted of gross sexual assault after raping an unconscious female. He is listed on the Maine Sex Offender Registry.
http://sor.informe.orgIn addition the ASAM actively courted law enforcement, promising them to take the “impaired physician” off their hands and quietly spirit them away where they couldn’t cause any commotion or public spectacle. This even included providing direct ASAM training to the King County Sheriff’s Department in Seattle WA so that officers would handle all cases involving licensed medical professionals by turning them over to the ASAM doctors of the Washington Physicians Health Program. This allowed a seamless flow of persons through assertion of color of law authority of the ASAM doctors over any licensed medical professional. The first phone call of the police would be to the nongovernmental organization the Washington Physicians Health Program and the ASAM doctors would immediately respond to control the targeted doctor. The Washington Physicians Health Program contract with the Washington Department of Health was used to promote color of law authority to the ASAM doctors. Thus the police force in King County (Seattle and surrounding area) would not abide by constitutional protections of civil law but would instead turn over any medical professional to the color of law authority of the ASAM doctors of the Washington Physicians Health Program. No warrant necessary, no informed consent, no need for true legal representation, no doctor/patient relationship required, the ASAM knew how to manipulate the doctor with coercive force and threats against their medical license. Law enforcement would not log complaints by doctors against the ASAM/Washington Physicians Health Program because the WPHP was a subcontractor of the Washington Department of Health. Law enforcement officers would take as absolute truth any diagnosis presented by the WPHP about any “impaired” doctor and would cooperate fully with the ASAM doctors to force the recalcitrant doctor to obey them. There would be no investigation into the violations of civil or even human rights – because according to the protocols approved by the ASAM – the “impaired” doctor is unable to make informed choice and needed to be controlled and forced to do what the ASAM desires.
The ASAM and the Federation of State Physicians Health Programs politically worked to change legislative law in each state to be favorable for them to control the investigation into any quality control issues related to doctors or other licensed medical professionals. Presenting themselves as experts on the treatment of addictions, the ASAM doctors did educational programs to train others to view “problem” doctors through the lens of ASAM principles built around the Dr. Ruth Fox tradition of abusive and coercive control. Thus they could protect their own addicted or criminally involved members and remove the medical licenses from anyone who would dare report their criminal behavior. They also started another organization which they would use to prevent licensed medical professionals from being able to access their own medical credentialing verification documents. The Physicians Health Program insists that state medical boards refuse to accept already well documented credentials and force applicants to send credentialing to a independent incorporated centralized agency the ASAM corruptly controlled. This essentially prevents whistleblowers from seeking a medical license in any state in the USA and shuts down a doctor’s ability to even go overseas with a clean record and obtain a medical license. The ASAM’s and FPHP control over medical licensing is absolute and is not open to law enforcement scrutiny and also not under the control of any governmental body. The state board of medicine does not control what goes on behind those closed doors. The US Congress cannot pierce the covert halls of this power and even the FBI is stopped at the door by the protestations of HIPPA and confidentiality which require a high burden of proof in order to obtain a subpoena. The ASAM addicted doctors have created a system they control and in which they can hide whatever criminal activity they want. Thus if you want to money launder and not get caught, you want to do it within the medical community with the help of the FSPHP and their associated colleagues, so drug addicts, alcoholics, persons with sexual compulsion, sex offenders, compulsive gamblers and other addicts now can sit in judgment on any whistleblower naïve enough to try to report their criminal activity.
If law enforcement wants to prevent medical fraud then we must dismantle this FSPHP system of power and control, and put power back in the hands of elected officials and real medical professionals with clean records and no past history of addictive behavior.
The techniques learned by Dr. Ruth Fox in mind control experiments using alcoholics as clinical subjects were easily adapted to silencing whistleblowers. These principles became the basis for the “Big Book” or the manual used by the ASAM to train all their followers. Inherent to this ASAM program designed for alcoholics were the following principles:
* We were powerless
* A power greater than ourselves will restore us to sanity
* We were wrong
* Our problems are the result of defects of character
* We admit/confess our sins to persons we had harmed
This kind of dogma is absolutely false for anyone who is an innocent crime victim or victim of trauma. For persons suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder one of the most important healing concepts is the concept of empowerment and personal control. Forcing whistleblowers, victims of sexual assault or combat trauma to admit they were morally wrong and suffer from a defect of character is absolutely contrary to what would be right for their personal healing. Holding a trauma victim in a locked facility and forcing confessions of “sins” in order to be released is essentially psychological coercion and torture. But this is exactly what the Physicians Health Programs, ASAM, and other associated programs do to all crime victims, combat veterans, whistleblowers, and victims of bullying in the workplace. Forcing a whistleblower to admit they are powerless and must obey a power greater than themselves is a way of making the whistleblower be silent and to bend to the political and social power of the criminal enterprise.
One has only to look at the past history of abuse of this substance abuse treatment method to understand how brutally abusive it is (SEED, Straight Inc., Talbott Marsh Recovery Center) There have been four US Congressional investigations into these abusive programs but they still multiply and thrive in spite of the exposure of their abusive methods. Now this abusive program has taken hold of the quality control system within the medical community and entrenched themselves as the “monitors” of proper behavior. The message is clear to all licensed medical professionals:
* Admit you are powerless in front of the power of the ASAM and the Federation of State Physicians Health Programs and you will never “snitch” on any ASAM member.
* Admit that the power of the ASAM and the Federation of State Physicians Health Programs will rule your life as a professional doctor.
* Admit you are wrong and have a defective character and need a “recovered” ASAM addict to tell you how to run your life and what you are allowed to do.
* Admit you have “sins” you are embarrassed about and which can be used by the ASAM and the Federation of State Physicians Health Programs for blackmail and extortion.
Dr. George Douglas Talbott MD is a former president of ASAM, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, which is yet another Alcoholics Anonymous front organization. ASAM exists to promote A.A. and 12-Step treatment to doctors, and to fool doctors into thinking that 12-Step treatment and Alcoholics Anonymous actually work to cure alcoholics.
Right now in Atlanta Georgia at the Talbott Recovery Center Dr. George Douglas Talbott, an admitted "recovered" alcoholic is running a rehab clinic that is specifically aimed at other doctors and medical professionals who have been forced to go through his treatment program by a state review board or professional society. But history has proven that his program makes doctors and nurses commit suicide.
"At least 20 doctors, nurses and other health professionals who have gone through the Ridgeview Institute's nationally acclaimed treatment program over the past 12 years have killed themselves since leaving the hospital."
— Atlanta Journal Constitution
In May, 1999, just after Talbott stepped down as president of ASAM, a jury awarded Dr. Leonard Masters, of Jacksonville Florida, a judgment of $1.3 million against Talbott, his daughter-in-law Morrison, and other Talbott associates for malpractice, fraud, and false imprisonment, based on Masters' stay at Talbott's Atlanta, Georgia, treatment facility in 1994.
The Federation of State Physicians Health Programs hold a contract with the Medical Associations in each state to provide these services and the cost is paid from both the State Department of Health and the Federal taxpayer as well as heavily financially influenced by malpractice insurance companies and large medical corporations. Medical Professionals when they apply for their licenses are unwittingly signing a contract for this non governmental agency the State Physicians Health Program to "monitor" them. The State Physicians Health Program is not itself monitored by anyone for what they do to the licensed professionals behind closed doors. Suicides are still common. The ASAM paid to settle a claim in Atlanta involving multiple suicides of licensed professionals at the Talbott Marsh Recovery Center. Marsh stands for Judge Marsh who was a part owner and financially benefited by forcing people to go to treatment there.
The State Physicians Health Program, a non governmental entity over which the State Department of Health has little supervisory oversight and control has been given almost police like powers to take away the license of any medical professional they choose to target and in addition have been granted by most of the State Legislatures quasi-governmental immunity from being sued for damages from injured persons. Thus the Federation of State Physicians Health Programs have prevented the bereaved families of the medical professionals who committed suicide from ever receiving justice.
You can identify the members of the American Society of Addiction Medicine by the letters FASAM behind their name. The ASAM website still encourages donations to the Ruth Fox Endowment Fund in honor of their "Founder". But one can wonder whether the ASAM is an organization that truly is meant to serve the patients needing addiction treatment. Their stated goal of increasing access to addiction treatment can be translated to increasing income of their FASAM members. ASAM supports research that furthers FASAM financial goals and is geared to increase use of their misguided principles in the ASAM BIG BOOK more widely. Financial incentives to keep patients captive in abusive addiction treatment centers while making maximum profit is not good public health policy, nor is it quality patient care which should be based on values inherent in the HIPPOCRATIC OATH. There is no mention of ethical values of patient care in the ASAM mission statement, instead their mission statement makes it clear that the goal is to further the use of their ASAM brand of Addiction treatment.
Remember that a central element to torture is the enforced loss of control and autonomy of the person and that mind control techniques use denying basic needs to a person in order to force submission to power. This submission to power is what the corrupt criminal enterprise’s protection apparatus is all about. The Federation of Physicians Health Programs is a corrupt criminal enterprise that is used to hide medical fraud, patient abuse and neglect, human rights violations, drug diversion and money laundering within the medical community.
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Who are the Doctors in the ASAM?
262 Physicians have been awarded Fellow status by ASAM, and they can be found listed here;
Terry L. Alley, M.D., FASAM,Warrior,AL,2000
James Alley, M.D., FASAM",Macon,GA,1998
Maris Andersons, M.D.,CD,CCFP,FASAM",Toronto,ON,1996
Andris Antoniskis, M.D., FASAM",Portland,OR,2004
Mihran N. Ask, M.D., FASAM",Loma Linda,CA,1998
Ray P. Baker, M.D., FASAM",Surrey,BC,1996
John Robert Baker, M.D., FASAM",Batesville,AR,2008
E. J. Barice, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Riviera Beach,FL,1996
Andrea G. Barthwell, M.D., FASAM",River Forest,IL,1998
Gabrielle B. Batzer, M.D., FASAM",Honolulu,HI,1996
Louis E. Baxter, Sr., M.D., FASAM",Princeton,NJ,1998
Richard A. Beach, M.D., FASAM",Navarre,FL,1996
Manoher R. Bearelly, M.D., FASAM",Makanda,IL,2006
Lee H. Beecher, M.D., FASAM",Minneapolis,MN,1998
Jeffrey A. Berman, M.S., M.D., FASAM",Summit,NJ,2006
Sheila B. Blume, M.D., FASAM",Sayville,NY,1996
Jacob Bobrowski, M.D., B.Sc., FASAM",Toronto,ON,2000
Steven C. Boles, D.O., FASAM",Peoria,AZ,2008
Douglas L. Bovee, M.D., FACP, FASAM",Eugene,OR,1998
Michael F. Boyle, III, D.O., FASAM",West Bloomfield,MI,1996
Burns M. Brady, M.D., FASAM",Louisville,KY,2006
Jess W. Bromley, M.D., FASAM",Hayward,CA,1996
David W. Brook, M.D., FASAM",New York,NY,2000
William S. Brostoff, M.D., FASAM",Vallejo,CA,1996
Kirk J. Brower, M.D., FASAM",Ann Arbor,MI,1998
Lawrence S. Brown, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Brooklyn,NY,1996
Donald G. Browning, M.D., FASAM",Little Rock,AR,1996
Milton E. Burglass, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Cambridge,MA,1996
William George Campbell, M.D., CCSAM, FASAM",Calgary,AB,2000
Andrew Campbell, Ph.D., FASAM",Indianapolis,IN,2000
Neil A. Capretto, D.O., FASAM",Aliquippa,PA,1996
Greg Carlson, M.D., FASAM",Minneapolis,MN,1996
H. B. Carlson, M.D., FACP, FASAM",Littleton,CO,1996
Paul G. Casola, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPC",Toronto,ON,2003
John N. Chappel, M.D., FASAM",Reno,NV,1996
Jean-Pierre Chiasson, M.D., FASAM",Ville Mont Royal,PQ,1996
H. W. Clark, M.D., JD, MPH, FASAM",Rockville,MD,1998
D. K. Cockrell, M.D., FASAM",Indianapolis,IN,1996
Irving A. Cohen, M.D.,FACPM,FASAM",Topeka,KS,1996
Stephen M. Colameco, M.D., FASAM",Sewell,NJ,2004
Robert A. Collen, M.D., FASAM",Cerritos,CA,1996
Donald R. Cornelius, M.D., FASAM",Wellington,,1996
Sandra J. Counts, M.D., FASAM",Seattle,WA,1996
Graeme M. Cunningham, M.D., FASAM",Guelph,ON,1996
Carol Cunningham, Ph.D., FASAM",Winston Salem,NC,1996
Robert D. Daigle, M.D., FASAM",San Jose,CA,2000
John Daigle, M.D., FASAM",Tallahassee,FL,2000
Jeff Daiter, M.D., FASAM, CCFP",Richmond Hill,ON,2006
John C. Dalco, M.D., FASAM",Scituate,MA,1996
Donald Lee Damstra, M.D., FASAM",Prescott,AZ,1996
Scott Mitchell Davis, M.D., M.A., FASAM",Palm Desert,CA,2008
Louis E. Deere, D.O., FASAM",Dallas,TX,1996
Anthony H. Dekker, D.O., FASAM",Phoenix,AZ,1996
Alexander F. DeLuca, M.D., FASAM",New York,NY,1998
Peter A. DeMaria, Jr., M.D., FASAM",Philadelphia,PA,1998
Avtar S. Dhillon, M.D., FASAM",Williamsburg,VA,2003
Andrew DiBartolomeo, M.D., FASAM,MBA,FACE",Akron,OH,1996
William E. Dickinson, D.O., FASAM, FAAFP",Everett,WA,1996
Dennis C. Doherty, D.O., FASAM",Atlanta,GA,2004
Martin C. Doot, M.D., FASAM",Des Plaines,IL,1996
Joseph E. Dorsey, M.D., FASAM",Hollywood,FL,1998
Robert L. DuPont, M.D., FASAM",Rockville,MD,1996
Judith Earley, Ph.D., FASAM",Atlanta,GA,1996
Paul H. Earley, M.D., FASAM",Atlanta,GA,1996
Allan Michael Ebert, D.O., FASAM",Flint,MI,2006
Steven J. Eickelberg, M.D., FASAM",Paradise Valley,AZ,1996
Nady El-Guebaly, M.D., FASAM",Calgary,AB,1996
John P. Epling, Jr., M.D., FASAM",Shreveport,LA,2000
Sara A. Epstein, M.D., FASAM",Los Angeles,CA,1996
Stanley J. Evans, M.D., FASAM",Portland,ME,2000
Steven R. Ey, M.D., FASAM",Newport Beach,CA,2003
J. Ramsay Farah, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Hagerstown,MD,2008
John P. Femino, M.D., FASAM",North Kingstown,RI,1996
James L. Ferguson, D.O., FASAM",Annapolis,MD,2008
Peter Kenneth Finelli, D.O., FASAM",Elmwood Park,NJ,2008
Timothy L. Fischer, D.O.,FASAM",Orangeburg,SC,2003
Marc J. Fishman, M.D., FASAM",Baltimore,MD,2008
Michael L. Fox, D.O., FASAM",Farmington Hills,MI,2004
Kenneth I. Freedman, M.D.,MBA,FACP, FASAM",Jamaica Plain,MA,2003
Marc Galanter, M.D., FASAM",New York,NY,1996
Joseph L. Galletta, M.D., FASAM",Hemet,CA,1998
Samuel B. Ganz, D.O., FASAM",Corpus Christi,TX,1998
Charles F. Gehrke, M.D., FASAM",Tecumseh,MI,2000
Anne Geller, M.D., FASAM",New York,NY, 1996 ( One of the founding members of ASAM, past president of ASAM and testified about abuse of Dr. Leonard Masters and against Dr. George Douglas Talbott MD)
Caroline M. Gellrick, M.D., FASAM",Evergreen,CO,1996
Stanley E. Gitlow, M.D., FACP, FASAM",Naples,FL,1996
Lee Gladstone, M.D., FASAM",Chicago,IL,1998
William Glatt, M.D., FASAM",South San Francisco,CA,2000
Roger A. Goetz, M.D., FASAM",Fernandina Beach,FL,1996
Lance L. Gooberman, M.D., J.D., FASAM",Merchantville,NJ,1998
Adam Joseph Gordon, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Pittsburgh,PA,2008
Lloyd J. Gordon, III, M.D., FASAM",Brandon,MS,1996
Marc N. Gourevitch, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",New York,NY,2003
Douglas L. Gourlay, M.D., FRCPC, FASAM",Waterdown,ON,2003
Douglas Graham, M.D., FASAM",Victoria,BC,1996
Allan Graham, M.D., FASAM",Denver,CO,1996
Roland W. Gray, M.D., FASAM",Brentwood,TN,2003
Raju Hajela, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Calgary,AB,1998
James A. Halikas, M.D., FASAM",Naples,FL,1998
William F. Haning, III, M.D., FASAM",Honolulu,HI,1996
Lynn R. Hankes, M.D.,FASAM",Mercer Island,WA,1996 ( Involved in brutal psychological abuse of doctors in Washington State leading to suicides and other doctors who were suicidal under his "monitoring" program in the Washington Physicians Health Program )
Harley J. Harber, M.D., P.A., FASAM",Salem,AR,1998
John Harsany, Jr., M.D., FASAM",Hemet,CA,2000
Stanley M. Haugland, M.D., FASAM",Windsor Heights,IA,1996
Thomas L. Haynes, M.D., FASAM",Grand Rapids,MI,1996
William H. Hazle, M.D., FASAM",Pocatello,ID,1996
Howard A. Heit, M.D., FACP, FASAM",Fairfax,VA,1998
Arnold J. Hill, M.D., M.Sc., FASAM",Marlborough,MA,1998
Thomas R. Hobbs, M.D., Ph.D., FASAM",Harrisburg,PA,1998
William J. Howell, M.D.,FASAM",Birmingham,AL,2003
Elizabeth F. Howell, M.D., FASAM",Salt Lake City,UT,1998
Robert B. Hunter, M.D., FASAM",Houston,TX,1996
Conway W. Hunter, Jr., M.D., FASAM",Sea Island,GA,1996
Richard D. Hurt, M.D., FASAM",Rochester,MN,1998
Gordon L. Hyde, M.D., FASAM",Lexington,KY,1996
Henry E. Irby, M.D., FASAM",Jackson,MS,2000
Richard R. Irons, M.D., FASAM", Lawrence, KS,1996 (Created a new diagnosis "Sex Addiction" based on the 12 step program and then claimed he could treat it. There is no such diagnosis in the DSM IV R He was an intern at Messigner clinic in Topeka KS, Founding father of Sexual Recovery Institute in AZ and was involved in the Interstate Sexual Trauma Institute in MN. All these programs use the 12 step approach to sex addicts. Dr. Irons is now deceased but the fabricated diagnosis of Sex Addiction is still treated there if you want to see how this site relates to ASAM and 12 step
http://www.sexualrecovery.com/sex-addicts.php )
Gary A. Jaeger, M.D., FAAFP, FASAM",Carson,CA,2000
Margaret A. E. Jarvis, M.D., FASAM",Waverly,PA,2003
Steven M. Juergens, M.D., FASAM",Mercer Island,WA,1996
Jeffrey David Kamlet, M.D., FASAM",Miami Beach,FL,2006
Geoffrey P. Kane, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Brattleboro,VT,1996
Lori D. Karan, M.D., FACP, FASAM",San Francisco,CA,1996
Steven S. Kipnis, M.D., FACP,FASAM",Orangeburg,NY,2003
Ebenezer Adekunle Kolade, M.D., FASAM",Bridgeport,CT,2008
Dexter Donald Koons, M.D., FASAM",Pueblo,CO,2008
Howard G. Kornfeld, M.D., FASAM",Mill Valley,CA,2003
Margaret M. Kotz, D.O., FASAM",Cleveland,OH,2008
Mark L. Kraus, M.D.,FASAM",Waterbury,CT,1996
Theodore B. Krouse, M.D., FASAM",Ocean City,NJ,2002
Kevin B. Kunz, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Kailua Kona,HI,2003
Donald J. Kurth, M.D., FASAM",Alta Loma,CA,2000
Tommie F. Lauer, M.D., FASAM",High Point,NC,2000
Steven Joseph Lee, M.D., FASAM",New York,NY,2008
John D. Lenton, M.D., FASAM",Midway,GA,1996
Petros Levounis, M.D., M.A., FASAM",New York,NY,2008
Michael Shawn Levy, D.O., FASAM",Las Vegas,NV,1998
M. D. Lewis, M.D., FASAM",Malibu,CA,1998
Michael R. Liepman, M.D., DFAPA, FASAM",Kalamazoo,MI,1996
Richard F. Limoges, M.D., DLFAPA, FASAM",Philadelphia,PA,2000
George Thomas Lloyd, M.D., FASAM",Butler,PA,2008
Lance Peter Longo, M.D., FASAM",Milwaukee,WI,2000
Donald I. MacDonald, M.D., FASAM",Rockville,MD,1996
Robert D. MacFarlane, M.D., FASAM",San Diego,CA,1996
Joseph C. MacMillan, M.D., FASAM",Alliston,ON,1996
Bonnie H. Madonik, B.Sc. M.D., FASAM",Toronto,ON,2006
Herbert L. Malinoff, M.D., FACP, FASAM",Ypsilanti,MI,1996
Edward H. Maloney, M.D., FASAM",Missoula,MT,1996
Eugene A. Mangieri, M.D., FASAM",Northport,AL,1998
J. Paul Martin, M.D., FASAM",Asheville,NC,1996
Thomas Charles Martin, M.D., FASAM",Holden,ME,2006
Sarz Maxwell, M.D., FASAM",Chicago,IL,2003
Susan V. McCall, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Portland,OR,2008
Brian Joseph McDevitt, D.O., FASAM",Varney,WV,2008
John P. McGovern, M.D.,FASAM(Honorary",Houston,TX,1998
Gerald J. McKenna, M.D., FASAM",Lihue,HI,1996
C. Richard McKinley, M.D., FASAM",Augusta,MO,1996
Mark A. Menestrina, M.D., FASAM",Brighton,MI,2008
Richard S. Merrick, M.D., FASAM",Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,1998
James M. Merritt, M.D., FASAM",Searcy,AR,1996
Adam M. Meyers, D.O., FASAM",Asbury Park,NJ,2003
Peter E. Mezciems, M.D., CCFP, FASAM",Guelph,ON,1996
Robert J. Middleton, M.D., FACP, FASAM",Louisville,KY,2000
Shannon C. Miller, M.D., FASAM, CMRO",Cincinnati,OH,2003 (US Air force forensic evaluations )
Michael M. Miller, M.D., FASAM",Madison,WI,1996
Norman S. Miller, M.D., FASAM",East Lansing,MI,1996
Earl H. Mitchell, M.D.,FASAM(Honorary",Washington,DC,2001
Joseph Molea, M.D., PA",Tampa,FL,2004
Charles W. Morgan, M.D., FAAFP, FASAM",Philadelphia,PA,1996
David P. Myers, M.D., FASAM",Tampa,FL,1998
George W. Nash, M.D., FASAM",Tucson,AZ,1996
Geneva F Nash, M.D., FASAM",Albuquerque,NM,1996
Robert R. Nelson, M.D., FASAM",Honor,MI,1996
James J. Nocks, M.D., FASAM, MSHA",Oxford,PA,1996
Kevin D. O'Brien, M.D., FASAM",Dade City,FL,1996
Dawn V. Obrecht, M.D., FASAM",Steamboat Springs,CO,1996
David L. Ohlms, M.D., FASAM",Saint Louis,MO,1996
Gary D. Olbrich, M.D., FASAM",Portland,OR,2000
Nicholas A. Pace, M.D., FASAM",New York,NY,1996
Wayne Edward Pasanen, M.D., FASAM",Lowell,MA,2008
Larry H. Patton, M.D., FASAM",Richardson,TX,1996
John D. Patz, D.O., FASAM",Seattle,WA,2008
Gary L. Patzkowsky, D.O., FASAM",Enid,OK,1998
Ronald F. Pike, M.D., FASAM",Worcester,MA,1996
Melvin I. Pohl, M.D., FASAM",Las Vegas,NV,1996
Craig T. Pratt, M.D., FASAM",Columbus,OH,1996
Mark R. Publicker, M.D., FASAM",Gorham,ME,1998
Anthony B. Radcliffe, M.D., FASAM",Redlands,CA,1996
Elmer H. Ratzlaff, M.D., FASAM",Kihei,HI,1998
Peter D. Rogers, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Columbus,OH,1996
Bryce B. Rohrer, M.D., FASAM",Goshen,IN,2003
Peter Rostenberg, M.D., FASAM",New Fairfield,CT,1996
Jeffrey D. Roth, M.D., FASAM",Chicago,IL,2000
Alphonse Kenison Roy, M.D., FASAM",Metairie,LA,1996
Terry A. Rustin, M.D., FASAM",Houston,TX,1996
Stephen J. Ryzewicz, M.D., FASAM",Wilbraham,MA,2008
Richard Saitz, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Boston,MA,2003
Edwin A. Salsitz, M.D., FASAM",New York,NY,2003
Mario J. Sanchez-Martinez, M.D., FASAM",Miami,FL,2008
Stan G. Sateren, M.D., FASAM",Columbus,OH,1998
Seddon R. Savage, M.D., FASAM",Concord,NH,1996
S. L. Schlesinger, M.D., FASAM",Kahului,HI,1996
Max A. Schneider, M.D., FASAM",Orange,CA,1996
Sidney H. Schnoll, M.D., Ph.D., FASAM",Westport,CT,1996
Mark T. Schreiber, M.D., FASAM",Virginia Beach,VA,2000
Terry K. Schultz, M.D., FASAM",Denver,CO,1996
Jerome E. Schulz, M.D., FASAM",Saint Paul,MN,1998
Richard Schwartz, M.D., FASAM",Vienna,VA,1998
William Marion Scott, III, M.D., FASAM",Piedmont,SC,2008
Peter L. Selby, MBBS, CCFP, FASAM",Toronto,ON,2006
Jeffery A. Selzer, M.D., FASAM",Glen Oaks,NY,2004
Kevin M. Sherin, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Orlando,FL,1996
Gail N. Shultz, M.D., FASAM",Tucson,AZ,1998
Jean Sinkoff, M.D., FASAM",Warren,MI,1998
Gregory E. Skipper, M.D., FASAM",Montgomery,AL,1998
John D. Slade, M.D., FASAM",New Brunswick,NJ,1996
C. Chapman Sledge, M.D., FASAM",Hattiesburg,MS,1998
Doyle P. Smith, M.D., FASAM",Jackson,MS,1996
David E. Smith, M.D., FASAM",San Francisco,CA,1996
James W. Smith, M.D., FASAM",Seattle,WA,1996
Barry S. Solof, M.D., FASAM",West Covina,CA,2003
Richard Graves Soper, M.D., J.D., FASAM",Nashville,TN,2008
Ravindra Prakash Srivastava, M.D., FASAM",Hilton Head Island,SC,2008
John B. Standridge, M.D., FASAM",Harrison,TN,2008
Barry Stimmel, M.D., FASAM",New York,NY,1996
Billy H. Stout, M.D., FASAM",Oklahoma City,OK,2006
Michel A. Sucher, M.D., FASAM",Scottsdale,AZ,1998
Gerald L. Summer, M.D., FASAM",Montgomery,AL,1996
Donal F. Sweeney, M.D., FACP, FASAM",Santa Barbara,CA,1997
Donald Sweeney, M.D., FASAM",Westfield,NJ,1998
G. D. Talbott, M.D., FACP, FASAM", Atlanta, GA,1996 (Founding member of ASAM, Dr. George Douglas Talbott ran the Talbott Marsh Recovery Center in Atlanta GA. He was responsible for the suicides of over 20 medical professionals and was found responsible in a court of law of abuse and false imprisonment of Dr. Leonard Masters MD. Dr. George Douglas Talbott is still running a treatment center for licensed medical professionals in Atlanta GA and gets referrals on contract from the State Medical Boards including Maine and Texas)
John Calvin Tanner, D.O., FASAM",Jacksonville Beach,FL,1998
Trusandra Elaine Taylor, M.D., FASAM",Philadelphia,PA,2006
Scott A. Teitelbaum, M.D., FASAM",Gainesville,FL,2008
Peter L. Tenore, M.D., FASAM",Bronx,NY,2008
Duraiyah Thangathurai, M.D., FASAM",Pasadena,CA,2008
Kenneth W. Thompson, M.D.,FASAM",Strasburg,PA,2003
Berton J. Toews, M.D., FASAM",Casper,WY,1998
Richard E. Tremblay, M.D., FASAM",Olympia,WA,1996
Joseph Alder Troncale, M.D., FASAM",Wernersville,PA,2008
Kenneth F. Tullis, M.D., FASAM",Memphis,TN,1996
Michael Varenbut, M.D., CCFP, FASAM",Richmond Hill,ON,2006
John J. Verdon, Jr., M.D., FASAM",Shrewsbury,NJ,1996
Jorge A. Viamontes, M.D., FASAM",Kirkwood,MO,1998
William Vilensky, D.O., R.Ph., FASAM",Longboat Key,FL,1996
Mark C. Wallen, M.D., FASAM",Sewell,NJ,1998
Arthur N. Ward, M.D., FASAM",Atlanta,GA,2000
Will W. Ward, M.D., FACP, FASAM",Louisville,KY,2000
Alan A. Wartenberg, M.D., FASAM, FACP",Attleboro,MA,1996
Michael F. Weaver, M.D., FASAM",Richmond,VA,2003
Dennis A. Weis, M.D., FASAM",Des Moines,IA,1998
James W. West, M.D., FASAM",Rancho Mirage,CA,1996
Howard Cary Wetsman, M.D., FASAM",Metairie,LA,2008
Norman Wetterau, M.D., FASAM",Dansville,NY,2003
Charles L. Whitfield, M.D., FASAM",Atlanta,GA,1996
Jeffery Neal Wilkins, M.D., FASAM",Los Angeles,CA,2008
Robert A. Williams, M.D., M.P.H., FASAM",Rome,GA,1996
Bernd Arthur Wollschlaeger, M.D., FAAFP., FASAM",North Miami Beach,FL,2008
Lance S. Wright, M.D., FASAM",Darby,PA,1996
Martha J. Wunsch, M.D., FASAM",Blacksburg,VA,2006
Elmer Yu, M.D., FASAM",Wilmington,DE,2003
Christopher Ziegler, M.D., FASAM",Harrisburg,PA,1998
Penelope P. Ziegler, M.D., FASAM",Williamsburg,VA,2000
Doctors in the Federation of State Physicians Health Programs
Board of Directors
Board of Directors and Officers
President
Michael H. Gendel, MD
President-Elect
Susan V. McCall, MD, MPH
Immediate Past President
Martin C. Doot, MD
Secretary
Luis T. Sanchez, MD
Treasurer
Peter A. Mansky, MD
Directors
2002-2004*
2003-2005*
Northeast
Terrance Bedient, CHE
Linda Bresnahan, MS
Central
Carole Hoffman, LCSW, CSADC
Stan Sateren, MD
Southeast
Gary D. Carr, MD
Warren Pendergast, MD
Western
Scott Alberti, CCDC, III
Jaye Swoboda, MD
At-Large
John Southworth, CADC
Michael Wilkerson, MD
*Term is two-years and can overlap into another term
Standing Committees
Executive Officers
Michael H. Gendel, MD, MD, Chair, FSPHP President
Susan V. McCall, MD, MPH, FSPHP President-Elect
Peter A. Mansky, MD, FSPHP Treasurer
Luis T. Sanchez, MD, FSPHP Secretary
Directors
Carole Hoffman, LCSW, CSADC, FSPHP Central Regional Director
Warren Pendergast, MD, FSPHP Southeast Regional Director
Nominating
Immediate Past President
Martin C. Doot, MD, (IL)
Northeast
Luis T. Sanchez, MD, (MA)
Central
Candace Backer, LCSW, MHC, (IN)
Southeast
Gary Carr, MD, (MS)
Western
Charles Walton, MD, (UT)
Pres. APP
Susan V. McCall, MD, MPH, (OR)
Bylaws
Michael W. Wilkerson, MD, Chair (NC)
Stan Sateren, MD (OH)
Lynn Hankes, MD, FASAM (WA)
Sarah Early, PsyD (CO)
Program
Luis T. Sanchez, MD, Chair (MA)
Linda Bresnahan, MS, (MA)
Terry Bedient, CHE (NY)
Doris Gundersen, MD (CO)
Carole Hoffman, LCSW, CSADC (IL)
Stan Sateren, MD (OH)
Bert Towes, MD (WY)
Publication
Linda R. Bresnahan, MS, Chair, (MA)
Sarah EArly, PsyD (CO)
John A. Fromson, MD, (MA)
Carole Hoffman, LCSW, CSADC, (IL)
Greg Skipper, MD (AL)
Public Policy
Susan V. McCall, MD, MPH, Chair, (OR)
Steve Dilts, MD, (CO)
Monica Feider, MSW, LICSW, (MN)
David Iverson, MD, (CO)
Martin C. Doot, MD, (IL)
Finance
Peter Mansky, MD, Chair, (NY)
Susan McCall, MD, MPH, (OR)
Ray Pomm, MD, (FL)
Membership
Scott Alberti, CDCC, III, Chair, (WA)
Gary D. Carr, MD, (MS)
Past Presidents
Martin C. Doot, MD, Chair (IL)
Lynn Hankes, MD, FASAM (WA)
John A. Fromson, MD, (MA)
David T. Dodd, MD (TN)
Gerald L. Summer, MD (In Memorium)
Richard Irons, MD (In Memorium)
Violet Eggert, MD (In Memorium)
Monitoring = This committee has been disbanded temporarily
Ethics
John A. Fromson, MD, Chair, (MA)
Scott McClure, MD, (CO)
Warren Pendergast, MD (NC)
Lynn Hankes, MD, FASAM, (WA)
Guidelines Task Force
Susan McCall, MD, Chair, (OR)
Michael Ramierz, MS, (MT)
Gary D. Carr, MD, (MS)
Terrance Bedient, CHE, (NY)
Warren Pendergast, MD, (NC)
Charles Gehrke, MD, (MI)
Lynn Hankes, MD, FASAM, (WA)
Doris Gundersen, MD (CO)
Research Task Force
Physician Health Research
Planning Group
Michael H. Gendel, MD, Chair, (CO)
Steve Dilts, MD (APA), (CO)
Penny Ziegler, MD (AAAP), (VA)
Anne Linton, MD, (ASAM),
Carole Hoffman, LCSW, CSADC, (FSPHP), (IL)
Linda R. Bresnahan, MS, (FSPHP), (MA)
Martin C. Doot, MD, (FSPHP), (IL)
Ellen McCantz-Katz, MD (FSPHP), (VA)
Janet Knisely, PhD, (FSPHP), (VA)
Sarah Early, PsyD, (FSPHP), (CO)
Luis T. Sanchez, MD, (FSPHP), (MA)
Roger Brown, PhD, (AMA), (IL)
*2 of the FSPHP members are official and voting
CAC Task Force = This committee has been disbanded temporarily
The Stated Goals of the Federation of State Physicians Health Programs:
* The FSPHP will achieve national and international recognition as an organization providing support for state physician health programs.
* The FSPHP promotes the best medical care possible for all patients.
* The FSPHP contributes toward this effort by promoting early identification, treatment, documentation, and monitoring of ongoing recovery of physicians prior to the illness impacting the care rendered to patients.
* The FSPHP organizational structure shall be adequate to achieve its vision and mission.
* The FSPHP will pursue the development and use of consistent standards, language, and definitions among state physician health programs to fulfill its mission.
