Dr. Karl Benzio - Addictions in The Family

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Karl Benzio, MD, Psychiatrist is an international speaker and frequent media guest expert. Karl testified for Congress and the President's Bioethics Commission, taught at pastor's conferences in Uganda and Kenya, led the first behavioral health training team into post-Sadam Iraq (at the request of the Iraqi government), taught counseling program courses, and spearheaded a unique Katrina relief effort.

He has started a non-profit ministry, directed adult and adolescent programs, psychiatric ER, as well as a Christian Rehab program, using his unique cutting-edge workshop, WITHIN REACH, to help people transform their lives, as it did Karl's addiction to alcohol and comfort.

Karl attended Duke University,1981-85: BSE in Biomedical Engineering, concentration in CNS imaging (graduated with honors) UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, 1985-89: MD (honors in psychiatry) University of California - Irvine, 1989-93: Psychiatric Residency - Accredited by Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.