Michael Joshua Ostacher

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Dr. Michael Joshua Ostacher is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University's School of Medicine. He serves on the American Psychiatric Association’s Council on Addiction Psychiatry and has extensively studied the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD). Dr. Ostacher critiques traditional recovery models, particularly those rooted in the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, and emphasizes the need for a more nuanced understanding of addiction that accounts for individual variability and the evolving definitions of recovery in contemporary medical practice.