Gregory F. Lakin, DO, JD, FASAM. Before Medical Doctorhood in the 80’s Dr. Lakin worked as a City Police Officer and was on the Swat Team and Drug Task Force in Colorado. While working in law enforcement Dr. Lakin realized that many police contacts involved good people exhibiting self-destructive behaviors due to drug addiction. In an attempt to further solve these social problems, he attended law school in the 90’s and became a Prosecuting Attorney practicing in Hawaii and Maui Counties’. He was eventually assigned to drug cases promoting treatment for those with addictions. Although he enjoyed the challenges in law enforcement, he then attended medical school to obtain additional skills to continue to help people with addictions in a more direct and humanistic manner.

After completing a family practice residency in 2001 he became Medical Directors of Wichita Treatment Center, Valley Hope, Bel Aire Recovery Center. Sixteen years ago, he opened the “Center for Change”, an out- patient opiate addiction treatment facility, which is now the largest Treatment Center in Kansas with over six hundred active patients. He is also active in numerous clinical research trials as a Primary Investigator.