Dr. David R Gastfriend M.D.
Addiction Psychiatrist | Addiction Psychiatry
88 Sidney St Cambridge MA, 02139About
Dr. David Gastfriend is an Addiction Psychiatrist practicing in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Gastfriend evaluates, diagnoses, and treats people who suffer from impulse control conditions related to addiction. As an Addiction Psychiatrist, Dr. Gastfriend is a substance abuse expert, and is trained to fully understand the biological science behind addiction, in order to properly treat each patient.
Education and Training
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University 1980
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Addiction Psychiatry
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Feasibility of multidimensional substance abuse treatment matching: automating the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria. American Society of Addiction Medicine.
- Depressive symptomatology and cocaine-induced pituitary-adrenal axis activation in individuals with cocaine dependence.
- The Addiction Severity Index: a field study of internal consistency and validity.
- Self-help group attendance and participation among cocaine dependent patients.
- The validity of self-reported drug use in non-treatment seeking individuals with cocaine dependence: correlation with biochemical assays.
- Predictors of self-help group attendance in cocaine dependent patients.
- Ultrarapid opioid detoxification: effects on cardiopulmonary physiology, stress hormones and clinical outcomes.
- Placement matching: challenges and technical progress.
- Clinical outcomes following cocaine infusion in nontreatment-seeking individuals with cocaine dependence.
- Gender differences in cocaine craving among non-treatment-seeking individuals with cocaine dependence.
- Patient placement criteria and their relation to access to appropriate level of care and engagement in alcoholism treatment.
- Retention in psychosocial treatment of cocaine dependence: predictors and impact on outcome.
- Addiction denial and cognitive dysfunction: a preliminary investigation.
- Cocaine-primed craving and its relationship to depressive symptomatology in individuals with cocaine dependence.
- Visual inspection of medications in preventing unexplained relapses.
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