Gregory X. Boehm, MD, DFASAM
Candidate for Regional Director
Region IV - New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania
Gregory X. Boehm, MD, DFASAM. For the past 21 years I have worked as Medical Director of Residential Addiction Treatment for Homeless men and women. For the past 8 years I have also been the Addiction Psychiatrist for the Salvation Army Early Prison Release Program, Survivors of Human Trafficking and Emergency Shelter for Homeless Mothers and Children. Residents in Psychiatry and Family Medicine rotate with me for their month of addiction medicine.
I am the Director of Addiction Medicine Lectures for UH Psychiatry Residents at Case Western Reserve University. As a member of the County Board for Mental Health and Addiction in Cleveland, I have worked to start Over Dose Prevention Centers as I learned from On Point in NYC.
Candidate Questionnaire Responses
1. What have been your greatest contributions to ASAM or to the field of addiction medicine over the last 10 years?
As President of our Ohio State Chapter, I advocated to begin establishing Overdose Prevention Centers, OPC's, while presenting to our annual State Conference. I present each academic quarter my OPC power point lecture to the Case Western Reserve Residents in Psychiatry, ER, Family Medicine. The residents rotate with me for their month of Addiction Medicine and learn first hand the need for OPC's while working with me at the homeless Residential Addiction Center Y-Haven and the Salvation Army Survivors of Trafficking program. By visiting NYC's OnPoint OPC, we were all able to see the success in reducing OD deaths while saving millions in reducing hospitalization and crime.
2. How would your election to the ASAM Board of Directors benefit ASAM and the field of addiction medicine?
By working with the Ohio State Legislature, I will continue to focus on our need to establish OPC's throughout the state. As a member of our county Board for Mental Health and Addiction treatment, I will continue to present to our county's 76 non-profit agencies on the success of OPC's and our need to enact legislation.
I will work with local TV Stations, Press and Media to further spread the knowledge of how we can save lives, reduce crime, recidivism, and the millions of dollars spent on treating OD hospitalization.