About
Dr. Jones is board-certified in addiction medicine and emergency medicine, and has treated more than 70,000 patients during a 20-year career. He is a graduate of the Emergency Medicine Residency at University of Mississippi Medical Center and Addiction Medicine Fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Jones provides medical expert services to the legal community on issues related to addiction medicine and emergency medicine.
Areas of interest: expert witness retention & litigation, consultative reviews/case clinics, certificates/affidavits of merit, cannabis, capacity, independent medical examinations, alcohol and drug use, drug testing, medical malpractice, addiction medicine, co-occurring legal issues such as intoxication, cognitive effects of drugs, wrongful death, violent crime, inappropriate use of prescription medications, gambling addiction, disease model of addiction, food addiction, Internet addiction, marijuana, psychoactive substance, withdrawal, dual diagnosis, detoxification, rehabilitation, co-occurring psychiatric disorders, buprenorphine, impaired professionals (lawyers, physicians, business executives, etc.).
Special skills include proficiency in communicating the interplay between law, brain science, and the art of medicine, and communicating complicated issues to the layperson.