David Miller, PhD

David Miller, PhD, has worked in the addiction field for 25 years. The focus of his work has been on finding alternative treatment methods to aid those for whom conventional treatment has not worked. He believes that many of these people are not unmotivated but are attempting to cope with physical problems that interfere with their ability to stay sober.
 
He has developed strategies for increasing sobriety skills and has developed a new approach to relapse prevention, which complements treatment methods that address the physiology of addiction. He is a certified relapse-prevention specialist and a certified reality therapist. His interest in relapse has led him to the study of attention deficit disorder, which he has found to be very frequent among recovering people, especially among those who relapse.
 
David has done addiction counseling in private practice, in an intensive outpatient treatment program, in a detoxification program, in a family intervention practice, and in a food addiction program. He was an associate professor of addiction studies at Graceland University in Independence, Missouri, where he was on faculty for eight years. Before that he taught addiction studies at Park University in Parkville, Missouri, for eleven years.
 
He is president of Miller Associates, an organization that develops educational material for addiction treatment programs (www.miller-associates.com), and also works with LifeStream Solutions to further the awareness, acceptance, and improvement of intravenous neuro-nutritional therapy for the treatment of addiction (www.lifestream-solutions.com). He is the co-author of numerous books including Learning to Live Again (with Merlene Miller and Terence Gorski), Overload, Attention Deficit and the Addictive Brain (with Kenneth Blum); and Staying Clean and Sober, Natural and Complementary Strategies for Healing the Addicted Brain (with Merlene Miller).