John H. Halpern

John H. Halpern (born 1969) is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Halpern is the son of the noted psychiatrist Abraham L. Halpern. The younger Halpern has a bachelors degree from the University of Chicago and an M.D. from the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn. He did his psychiatry residency at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Training Center. Halpern also served as a psychiatric researcher at the University of New Mexico in 1994.
In 1998 Halpern was a Laughlin Fellow of The American College of Psychiatrists.
Halpern is at least to some extent Jewish since his marriage to Gabrielle Yan-Yang Chen in 1994 was performed by Rabbi Robert Rothman.
Halpern has published a great many papers of drugs, especially hallucinogens. Among other papers on the effects, or more accurately the non-effect, of peyote or psychological and cognitive abilities. His "Use of Hallucinogens in the Treatment of Addiction" appeared in Addiction Research in 1996. Halpern has also conducted studies that suggest cocaine has a direct biological effect on the ability of the body to fight disease.
Halpern has sought to get government approval to do medical studies on possible beneficial uses of LSD.

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