Kirk J. Brower, M.D., a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan (UM), is board-certified in both general and addiction psychiatry. He started the UM Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program in 1997, which continues to train subspecialty physicians. He also co-founded UM Addiction Treatment Services (UMATS) and served as its first Executive Director from 2006-2016. He is a Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Society of Addiction Medicine.

This lecture will define what is meant by addiction and substance use disorders as well as older, out-of-vogue terms such as substance abuse and chemical dependency. Different models of addiction will be compared and contrasted such as the moral, brain disease, learning, and self-medication models, including their views of addiction causes and treatment.

This is the first of a six-lecture series. The subject is Faces of Addiction. The next lecture will be April 26. The title is Opioids in America: The Role of Surgery.