Eric Strain, M.D.

Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director
Johns Hopkins Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and Research

Dr. Eric Strain is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and Research.

A specialist in addictions and pharmacology research, Strain has conducted key studies with buprenorphine as well as other medications for treating substance abuse disorders. His current work on a prescription pain drug, for example, not only checks its potential for abuse; it also explores possibilities that it might, by its mildness, become a useful medication for treating people with low-level addiction.  

An author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, non-peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and books, Dr. Strain lectures about various addictions. Board certified in addiction psychiatry by the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry, he is the associate editor for the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed medical journals, and has served on various federal advisory and review committees. 

Dr. Strain is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the College on Problems of Drug Dependence.

He received his medical degree from Ohio State University College of Medicine and came to The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1985 as a resident. 

He will discuss A Wake Up Call: The Facts About Caffeine at A Woman's Journey in Session I, 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.