The Connection Between Trauma and Addiction
At Avise Wellness in Bucks County, PA, we recognize that addiction is often more than just a physical dependence on substances—it can be deeply intertwined
Michael is a board certified physician now specializing in Addiction Medicine. Since college, Michael has been providing service to others in two of his strongest passions, emergency medicine and mental health.
In undergraduate work, Michael was employed as a student psychiatric intern, spending several days every week in the schools working with Socially and Emotionally disturbed children (SED, now referred to as “behaviorally challenged”). At the same time, Michael was an Emergency Medical Technician, Instructor, and then an EMT-Paramedic, and was employed full time for 12 years as the Emergency Medical Services Systems Coordinator for Bucks County, Pennsylvania where he was a key figure in the development of an advanced life support (paramedic) system in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. That passion led to medical school at Ohio University, where he graduated third in his class.
Michael completed internship and residency in Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, obtained board certification and subsequently re-certifying twice since then. His board certification remains current. While working in Emergency Medicine for over two decades, his special passion remained with patients with substance use disorder and mental health needs, serving on the “front lines” of those afflicted by a substance use disorder, managing intoxication, psychosis, withdrawal, dependency, emotional crisis and dealing with the many consequences caused by the use, and abuse, of these substances.
Having “retired” from actively practicing Emergency Medicine a few years ago, Michael
naturally transitioned into Addiction Medicine and mental health, and has been serving as an Addiction
Medicine physician for several years, managing physical and mental health needs of patient afflicted
with a substance use disorder, and actively providing Medication Assisted Treatment. He remains
passionate in his service to others and works with patients closely to assist them in finding happiness in
themselves and in life without substances of abuse.
At Avise Wellness in Bucks County, PA, we recognize that addiction is often more than just a physical dependence on substances—it can be deeply intertwined
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