Nicotine Addiction: An Interview with Lori Karan

✍ Scribed by Sandra B. Barker

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 378 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1055-3835
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-1874.1997.tb00113.x

✦ Synopsis

L tions and Offender Counselors (IAAOC) luncheon at the 1996American CounselingAssociation's (ACA) World Conference in Pittsburgh. Karan has devoted herself full time to the study, practice, and teaching of addiction medicine since 1984. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University and Rutgers Medical School, Karan first helped to direct the Department of Addiction Services at Wyman Park Medical Center, associated with the Johns Hopkins Health System, in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1987, Karan moved to the Medical College of Virginia where she now holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry. Between 1987 and 1993, Karan was the medical director of the Inpatient Chemi-: cal Dependency Unit at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, and she is now an attending physician on the hospital-wide substance abuse consultation service. Karan has been active nationally. In 1988 and 1989, she cochaired the Second and Third National Forums on AIDS and Chemical Dependency sponsored by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). She was a founding member ofASAM's Nicotine Dependency Committee in 1985 and has co-chaired five annual Nicotine Research Round Table Discussions since 1991. Karan is also a founder and the current membership chair of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Karan was instrumental on the task force that enabled the Medical College of Maryland to become a smoke-free facility. She helped pioneer the treatment of nicotine addiction in chemical dependency units; her findings were published in "Towards a Broader View of Recovery," in the Spring 1993 issue of the Journal