About Dr. Marcus Ellison
Dr. Marcus Ellison is the Medical Director of Addiction Treatment Services and a board-certified addiction medicine physician who holds a Doctor of Medicine (MD) and is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (FASAM). He oversees the clinical accuracy of the guidance published here, from medically supervised detox through long-term relapse prevention.
Marcus treats substance use as the medical condition it is, pairing evidence-based medication with compassionate, whole-person care. He became an addiction medicine physician because he saw too many people fall through the gaps of a system that judged them instead of treating them. His goal with every article and every patient is the same: to make difficult treatment decisions easier to understand and less frightening to face.
