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Mel Pohl, MD, FASAM is a Board Certified Family Practitioner. He is the Medical Director of Las Vegas Recovery Center (LVRC). Dr. Pohl was a major force in developing LVRC’s Chronic Pain Recovery Program. He is certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM), and a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).  Dr. Pohl is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. He is a nationally known public speaker and co-author of Pain Recovery: How to Find Balance and Reduce Suffering from Chronic Pain (Central Recovery Press, 2009); Pain Recovery for Families: How to Find Balance When Someone Else’s Chronic Pain Becomes Your Problem Too (Central Recovery Press, 2010). Dr. Pohl is the author of A Day without Pain (Central Recovery Press, 2008), which won a silver medal from Independent Publisher Book Award in May 2009.  He has recently written a revised version of A Day Without Pain (Central Recovery Press, 2011).

• Dr. Pohl was again named 2011-2012 Best Doctors in America by bestdoctors.com.
• Mel Pohl, M.D., is a well-known and respected addiction specialist with more than twenty-nine years of experience treating addiction and addiction-related conditions.
• He is a nationally known public speaker and coauthor of The Caregivers Journey: When You Love Someone with AIDS and Staying Sane: When You Care for Someone with Chronic Illness.
• Co-chair ASAM’s Third, Fourth, and Fifth National Forums on AIDS and chemical dependency.
• Former Chairman of ASAM’s AIDS Committee.
• Member of program committee for ASAM’s annual meeting.
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV.