Julie Holland M.D. - Psychopharmacology, The Brain and drugs (#45) - a podcast by East Forest

Julie Holland is a psychiatrist specializing in psychopharmacology, with a private practice in New York City. Holland is editor of Ecstasy: The Complete Guide--A Comprehensive Look at the Risks and Benefits of MDMA, and The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to the Risks and Benefits of Cannabis. Holland also provides expert testimony and forensic consultation on a range of drug-related behavior and phenomena, with a focus on PCP and MDMA. She majored in the Biological Basis of Behavior at the University of Pennsylvania and received her M.D. in 1992 from Temple University School of Medicine. At Mount Sinai Medical Center, she completed a residency program in psychiatry, where she created a research project that treated schizophrenics with a new medication. In 1994, she received the Outstanding Resident Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. From 1996 until 2005 she worked weekends running Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric emergency room, and she's penned an autobiography of this time, Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER.

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