Joseph Shrand, MD, is an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Adolescent Psychiatry at High Point Treatment Centers of Southern Massachusetts, and the Medical Director of CASTLE (Clean and Sober Teens Living Empowered), a short term residential program for teens challenged by drugs and alcohol, located in Brockton, MA. Dr. Shrand is triple Board certified in adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and a diplomat of the American Board of Addiction Medicine.Dr. Shrand is the creator and founder of Drug Story Theater, an innovative program that teaches improvisational theater to teens in the early stages of recovery, then uses psychodrama to create a scripted show about the seduction of, addiction to , and recovery from drugs and alcohol. The teens then perform these shows for middle and high school students so the treatment of one becomes the prevention of many. In their pilot year of 2015 the show was presented to more than 10,000 students, parents, educators, and townspeople in Southern Massachusetts. In between each scene the teens step out of character and present a power point that teaches the audience about the adolescent brain and why it is at such risk for life long addiction. www.drugstorytheater.org or face book Drug Story Theater for more information.He is also the Medical Director of Road to Responsibility, a community based program that tends to adults with significant developmental disability and serves on various Boards involved in national mental health issues as well as global fair-trade concerns.He helped to design the Independence Academy, the first sober high school on the South Shore of Massachusetts, and currently sits on the Steering Committee. Dr. Shrand routinely gives lectures on Theory of Mind and its application to re-conceptualize the behaviors of patients. Among colleagues and staff, he is affectionately called “Doctor Joe,” as he was “Joe” in the original children’s cast of the PBS series ZOOM.