Andrew Saxon, M.D.

Biography

Preceding his entry into psychiatry, Dr. Andrew Saxon completed an internal medicine internship and worked for 4 years as an emergency room physician. Subsequent to his general psychiatry residency at the University of Washington, he has accrued more than three decades of experience as a clinical and research addiction psychiatrist. Dr. Saxon is board-certified and has added qualifications in Addiction Psychiatry from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Saxon sits on the editorial boards of the journals Drug and Alcohol Dependence and General Hospital Psychiatry and is section editor for substance use disorders for UpToDate. He is a lifetime Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, where he served from 2017-2019 as that organization’s Chair of the Council on Addiction Psychiatry. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and a member of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.

Dr. Saxon’s research work is supported by Veterans Affairs, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute of Mental Health, and focusses on pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies for alcohol, tobacco, and opioid use disorders; co-occurrence of substance use disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder; phenomenology and epidemiology of cannabis use; and treatment of substance use in primary care. He has had more than 150 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and has presented on his areas of expertise at numerous conferences.