Nov 2, 2017
In the Doctor’s Office: Recovery Friend or Foe? was presented on October 24, 2017; by Mark A. Weiner, MD, D-FASAM; and Matthew Statman, LMSW, CAADC; University of Michigan Collegiate Recovery Program Manager. Addiction is widely recognized as a chronic illness best treated with long-term monitoring and support. Primary health care settings are natural places for this care to be provided. However, it's been said that the doctor's office can be a dangerous place for people in recovery from addiction. It's also been said that recovering people can be terrible patients. This program will discuss whether these statements are fair, and why healthcare providers are essential allies for long term recovery. The program will provide a basic overview of the neurobiology of addiction and its implications for health care consumers and providers, list specific concerns related to medications, describe ways in which people in recovery from alcohol/other drug addiction can take responsibility for their health and discuss how health care providers can assist with sustaining recovery.
This presentation is part of the Dawn Farm Education Series, a free, annual education series developed to provide accurate, helpful, hopeful, practical, current information about chemical dependency, recovery, family and related issues. The Education Series is organized by Dawn Farm, a non-profit community of programs providing a continuum of substance use disorder treatment and recovery support services. For information, please see http://www.dawnfarm.org/programs/education-series.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Mark A. Weiner, MD, D-FASAM
Dr. Weiner is the Section Chief of Addiction Medicine and serves as
the Medical Director of Substance Use Disorders at St. Joseph Mercy
Hospital Ann Arbor. He is also the Medical Director of IHA Pain
Management Consultants. He is the chair of the planning committee
of the American Society of Addiction Medicine course, “Pain and
Addiction: Common Threads” and is a member of the planning
committee for the American Society of Addiction Medicine Annual
Meeting. He is an editor of the upcoming ASAM Pain and Addiction
Handbook. Dr. Weiner is the current Chair of the Board of Trustees
of Dawn Farm.
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Matthew Statman, LMSW, CAADC
Matthew Statman is the Manager of the Collegiate Recovery Program
at the University of Michigan and faculty advisor to the University
of Michigan Students for Recovery. He is an adjunct lecturer at
Eastern Michigan University school of Social Work and a Board
Member of the Association of Recovery in Higher Education. Matt
worked with Dawn Farm from 2004 through 2012, first as a House
Manager and Resident Aid and later as a Detox Counselor and Detox
Team Leader. After obtaining his MSW, Matt worked as an Outpatient
Therapist and an Administrator and Therapist in Dawn Farm’s
Correctional Programs, and as a Residential Therapist at Dawn Farm
Downtown. Matt was the Dawn Farm Education Series coordinator from
2007 through 2012. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University in
2009 with his BSW and received his MSW from the University of
Michigan in 2010. In July 2017 Matt received the Kitty L. Harris
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Recovery in
Higher Education.