Yasin Choudry, M.D.

Yasin Choudry - Addiction from a self-medicatation lens Scroll through addiction content on social media long enough and you will find people using the phrase "addiction is self-medication" to mean completely contradictory things. One creator uses it to say your drinking makes sense once you understand your trauma, so be gentle with yourself. Another uses it to dismiss twelve-step as a cult and push ketamine journeys. Others treat it as a permission slip: if the substance is

The populations missed and misunderstood by mainstream mental health. By Yasin Choudry, MD I've spent 28 years watching the mainstream mental health system fail certain people. Not because providers are incompetent—but because the paradigm itself has blind spots. I'm a triple board-certified physician: psychiatry, addiction medicine, and integrative-holistic medicine. I work part-time in a hospital setting. I believe in evidence-based treatment. I've also been on the receivin