JohnBCasperMDFASAM

Summary

• The clinical practice of Dr. John Casper focuses on evaluation and treatment of Substance Use Disorders & Co-occurring Disorders. Dr. Casper promotes abstinence based recovery but is also an advocate and expert in medically-assisted treatment (MAT) with buprenorphine (Suboxone/Subutex/Sublocade), methadone, extended-release injected naltrexone (Vivitrol) and other modalities. Clinical objectives involve management of isolated addictive disease or addictive disease with psychiatric illness, medical illness, chronic pain and acute pain.
  
  
  
  Independent Medical Evaluations (IMEs) have been the focus of non-clinical practice for over 20 years. Dr. Casper has provided IMEs for Attorneys, Insurance Companies, Surgeons, Pain Specialists, Department of Veterans Affairs, State Disability Determination Services, Social Security Administration and State Professional Health Programs related to:
  
  •    Bariatric Preoperative Psychiatric Evaluations
  •    Spinal Cord Stimulator Preoperative Psychiatric Evaluations
  •    Intrathecal Infusion Device Preoperative Psychiatric Evaluations
  •    Internal Medicine
  •    Occupational Medicine
  •    Disability
  •    Personal Injury
  •    Traumatic Brain Injury
  •    Chronic Pain
  •    Addictive Disease.