Gerald Shulman is a licensed clinical psychologist, a Master Addiction Counselor, a Fellow of the American College of Addiction Treatment Administrators and Board Certified by the American Academy of Psychologists Treating Addiction.  He has been providing direct treatment and clinically supervising or administratively managing the delivery of care to alcoholics and drug addicts full-time since 1962.  He has worked in public and private, single site programs and multi-site inpatient and outpatient systems, a number of which he designed.  He is currently the president of his own training and consulting company in behavioral health located in Jacksonville, Florida providing services to members of professional associations, public and private treatment programs, behavioral managed care organizations, EAPs, states, the Military and federal agencies.

Among his accomplishments, he is an author of the NAATP, the ASAM, the ASAM PPC-2, and the ASAM PPC-2R Patient Placement Criteria and he was a panel member and work group facilitator on a Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP #26) for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) on “Substance Abuse Among Older Adults.”  His goals are providing comprehensive assessment, intervention and effective treatment services for older adults with substance-related disorders.  His interest stems from his awareness that while older substance abusing individuals constitute a large and growing population who develop significant health, social and family problems for themselves and very significantly increase health care costs for the everyone, we have paid little attention to substance related disorders in this population.