Gender: Male Age: 50-59 Marital Status: Married Location:
New York City My Interests
Opioid Therapy
War on Doctors and the Pain Crisis in America
Substance abuse
Medical marijuana
War on Drugs
Drug Policy
Liberties
Justice
Activism About Me
Alexander DeLuca was born in NYC in 1955. He attended Vassar and received his M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed Montefiore's Residency Program in Social Medicine, became board certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine and an ASAM fellow, chaired ASAM's Review Course 1998-2000, and earned an MPH degree from Columbia University in 2005.
From 1990, he was medical director at the Smithers Addiction Treatment and Research Center, and was chief there 1998-2000. After being fired from Smithers in a 'moderation vs. abstinence' media firestorm, DeLuca did private practice in psychopharmacology, opioid pain management, and treatment of substance use disorders in a primary care setting.
Dr. DeLuca is an independent consultant specializing in addiction and pain medicine. His primary work and interest, at present, is providing defense consultation and medical expert-witness services, especially regarding pain-treating physicians caught up in unfair drug-war prosecutions, and in cases of possibly comorbid chronic pain and substance use disorder.
Other areas of experience and expertise include,
* medication development consultation services, from pilot study design to medical and patent literature review, to the FDA regulatory process, document preparation, and meetings; and,
* treatment system design, especially the integration of addiction and pain therapy and the incorporation of clinical research teams into the fabric of medical treatment systems, towards better patient outcomes and development of research generated revenue streams.
As Senior Policy Analyst and board member of the Pain Relief Network he is also an advocate for chronic pain patients, and for the physicians who would treat them with the respect and dignity due any sufferer in our society, were it not for the distortion of medical norms, ethics and practice brought about by decades of serving, under threat of severe punishment, law enforcement imperatives. Alex is also a long-time advocate of harm reduction and is a friend and informal advisor to the leadership of Moderation Management, Inc., having been more active in that organization 2000-2003.
DeLuca's Addiction, Pain and Public Health website, aka doctordeluca.com, is a rich resource of full text academic and journalistic resources and collections of related documents, and is especially focused on the areas of chronic pain, opioid therapy, the war on doctors, and substance use disorders - especially alcohol abuse and alcohol and opioid dependence including detoxification.
In April 2007 an extension of the website, the War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog of the Pain Relief Network, was launched.
Dr. DeLuca is updating and reworking his 2004 historical overview, entitled: War on Drugs, War on Doctors, and the Pain Crisis in America, for peer-reviewed publication (hopefully) in 2007.
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