An Overview of the Challenges Facing the Addiction Field, As Told By Pioneers

Stuart Gitlow, MD, MPH, MBA, DFAPA, was eleven years old when he first realized he wanted to enter the field of addiction medicine. On the night of the realization, he was accompanying his father, a past president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), to Salt Lake City for a conference and tagging along at a dinner for colleagues. While listening to his father’s peers speak about addiction, he began to develop his own voice. Dr. Gitlow explains, What I remember was that they…