The Family Café welcomes physician, advocate, and person in recovery from opioid and benzodiazepine addiction, Dr. Stephen Loyd for a conversation about opioids and addiction. Dr. Loyd, who is an Internal Medicine/Addiction Medicine physician and Vice-President of the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners, was the Assistant Commissioner (Opioid Czar) for Substance Abuse Services in the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. He gained national notoriety in 2021 with the release of the television series Dopesick, in which Michael Keaton portrayed a character based in part on his life story. He has served as an expert witness in more than twenty federal and state cases against physicians who were improperly prescribing controlled substances, and was named an Advocate for Action by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), an office of the President of the United States. Dr. Loyd was an original member (still active) of the Treatment of Chronic Pain Guidelines Committee which defined pain treatment for providers in the state of Tennessee. He has worked as an Addiction Medicine Physician in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, specializing in the treatment of opioid dependent pregnant women. Dr. Loyd has served on multiple drug courts in Tennessee, has worked with multiple community level anti-drug coalitions from Johnson County to Shelby County, and has worked with all levels of state law enforcement, mainly the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. He currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for Cedar Recovery in Tennessee and is the current Chair of the Tennessee Opioid Abatement Council appointed by current Tennessee Governor Bill Lee. Dr. Loyd has been in recovery from opioid and benzodiazepine addiction since July 8, 2004, and has delivered over five hundred educational lectures on addiction and treatment of opioid use disorder and proper prescribing of controlled substances.
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Keynote Address The Opioid and Addiction Crisis with Dr Stephen Loyd
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