Recent News

New York’s Port Authority could do more to prevent suicide

Read my profile of suicidologist Madelyn Goul.

RadioLab’s look at scientific help for addiction

Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad interviewed me for a fascinating segment on alcohol use and substance use disorders, and the history that has kept addiction segregated from the rest of medicine

Addressing Mental Health in the Black Community

I spoke to author Benilde Little and others as part of WNYC's coverage of the Affordable Care Act in Newark and its surrounding suburbs

My conversation with Audie Cornish about my Atlantic piece—and its critics

Are all Alcohol Treatments Created Equally?

I discuss new alcohol treatment options with NewTalk Florida's Dan Maduri

A discussion on All In about my Atlantic findings

WNYC’s On The Media

My discussion of how recovery is portrayed onscreen

I will be speaking at The Atlantic’s Health Forum on March 18th in Washington, DC.

So honored to be part of this forum sponsored by The Atlantic on March 18 in Washington. I will join Anthony Fauci, Zeke Emanuel and several other leading researchers and policy makers in discussing critical topics in medicine and public health.