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JOHN J.
McCARTHY, M.D., is a faculty mentor and instructor who has
served as President, Executive Director and Medical Director of Bi-Valley Medical Clinic,
Inc., since 1980, and has served as an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at
University of California, Davis, Medical Center. Dr. McCarthy is a board member of
California Organization of Methadone Providers, Inc., The Effort (Drug Rehabilitation
Programs) and the National Alliance of Methadone Advocates. He is a member of the American
Society of Addiction Medicine, the California Society of Addiction Medicine
"Committee on Treatment of Opiate Dependence," and the Sacramento-El Dorado
Medical Society, Editorial Committee. Dr. McCarthy has several published works, including
"Limit Setting on Drug Abuse in Methadone Maintenance Patients," (with Orin T.
Borders, Ph.D.) American Journal of Psychiatry 142:12, December 1985;
"Quantitative Urine Drug Monitoring in Methadone Programs: Potential Clinical
Uses," Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 26:2, Apr-Jun 1994; "The Drug War is
a Public Health and Safety Menace," Sacramento Medicine, June 1994; and
"Needle Exchange: Ideology Versus Science," Sacramento Medicine,
February, 1995. He has made presentations to numerous government agencies and professional
groups including the University of California, Los Angeles, Drug Abuse Research Group;
State of California, Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs; University of California,
Davis, Medical Center; Western Scientific Assembly of the California Medical Society;
American Methadone Treatment Association; and the Sutter Center for Psychiatry. Dr.
McCarthy graduated from Tufts University, School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts in
1969; performed his internship at USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, where he also received
Internal Medicine specialty training; and performed his psychiatric residency at the
University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, Colorado. |
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