Gerard Bullen, an active member of the American Medical Writers Association, has been writing in the field of substance addiction and recovery for the last 5 years - a topic that is personal to him on a number of different levels. When Gerard is not writing, however, you’ll find him happily reading, writing for pleasure, hiking with his crazy dogs, or binge-watching the latest European crime drama boxset on Netflix.
Addictive substances, like prescription opioid medications, cocaine, marijuana, and alcohol, provide their “high” by the intense chemical interaction they induce with the…