“DrSteve” as he is commonly known, is one of three founders of California Together, and serves as our President/CEO and Editor.

He is a graduate of Harvard College (AB ’73) where he concentrated in English Literature and pre-med studies. He went on to graduate from the University of Minnesota Medical School (MD ’76) where he excelled academically and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in his Junior year. He is board-certified in Emergency Medicine with over 20 years logged as a practicing Emergency Physician, including over 14 of those years served as Director of Emergency Services at Anaheim Memorial Medical Center in Anaheim, CA.
Most importantly, Dr. Groth brings to California Together a perspective of recovery, as he will soon be entering his fourth year of recovery from addiction to opiates, alcohol, benzodiazepines, and “other things”. His personal story includes the dual diagnosis of chronic pain due to chronic pancreatitis, an ongoing condition he’s had since about 1998. This unfortunate combination greatly fueled his own addictions for many miserable years before he finally “got it” and found his own durable recovery. In his “spare time” and in addition to his role here at California Together, Dr Groth practices addiction and general medicine as the Executive Director of Operations and Medical Director of the TRIAD Treatment Center in Irvine, CA. In reality, this is his major professional focus and takes up much of his time.

DrSteve will also be penning a regular California Together column each month, “Straight Talk from the Doc”. Readers are welcome to send their questions to him about medical issues in detox, rehab, and in recovery, or to suggest topics for him to address in his column.