Where has Dr. Leeds been published, and where can you hear him?
Dr. Leeds is an osteopathic physician in Fort Lauderdale who helps patients taper off of benzodiazepines and other psychiatric medications. He has written for medical news sites and been profiled by the magazine of his own profession, and he hosts a podcast that has released new episodes as recently as 2026.
This page gathers those appearances in one place, and every link goes to the original publisher. So, where should a patient who is thinking about a taper begin? With the next two sections.
Dr. Leeds serves on the medical advisory board of the Benzodiazepine Information Coalition.
The Benzodiazepine Information Coalition, or BIC, is a nonprofit formed in 2016 to raise awareness of the harm benzodiazepines can cause. Dr. Leeds sits on its medical advisory board, and the coalition lists him on its About page and in a profile.
Why does that matter to you? A person who takes a benzodiazepine exactly as prescribed can become physically dependent on it. Yet, physical dependence is not addiction. It is a medical condition caused by the medication, and it calls for a gradual, patient-directed taper, not an addiction program.
That is the position he brings to the board, and it is the position that runs his practice.
The Rehab Podcast is on the Mental Health News Radio Network.
Dr. Leeds hosts The Rehab Podcast on the Mental Health News Radio Network, available on all major podcast platforms. Guests have included physicians, authors, and filmmakers who work in addiction, recovery, and deprescribing.
While the show has been running since about 2018, its newest episode, released in 2026, covered benzodiazepine tapering, and the full archive remains available on the network’s page.
Dr. Leeds has written guest articles for KevinMD and Medical Economics.
Dr. Leeds wrote three guest posts for KevinMD, a physician news site. In April 2017, he argued that small practices could help with the opioid crisis. In November 2017, he made the case for a free, open-source medical record, and in March 2018 he wrote about doctors lost to drug addiction.
In July 2017, Medical Economics published his article Physician-designed EHRs work better for doctors. At the time, he ran a small family practice and had built his own electronic record system on open-source software, as this site’s OpenEMR page describes.
In fact, the argument underneath the micropractice and EHR pieces is the same. A doctor who is free of corporate medicine and its software has time to sit with a patient and listen. That is still how Dr. Leeds practices.
The DO and The Happy Doc have profiled Dr. Leeds.
The DO, the magazine of the American Osteopathic Association, featured him twice in 2017. The first piece, on micropractices, described a Fort Lauderdale practice where patients could call the doctor directly. The second, on EHR hacking, covered the ordering tool he wrote for his own charts and gave to other doctors.
The Happy Doc podcast interviewed him in March 2017, in an episode titled Programming and Medicine. While the episode is from 2017, it is still listed on the site, and it covers why he left employed medicine and how he built a practice with little overhead.
Dr. Leeds has a book on Amazon.
Dr. Leeds has an Amazon author page, and the book on it is The Sinclair Method and Pharmacological Extinction With Naltrexone. It is a Kindle book about the Sinclair Method, which uses naltrexone to help heavy drinkers and gray area drinkers cut down or stop.
The Sinclair Method is a treatment the practice offers. The book explains it for a general reader, without a prescription pad in sight.
How do you reach Dr. Leeds?
Dr. Leeds sees patients by concierge telemedicine throughout Florida and keeps an office in Fort Lauderdale. The practice leads with benzodiazepine and z-drug tapering and the deprescribing of other psychiatric medications, and every taper is gradual and patient directed.
So, if you would like to become a patient, or you are a journalist or podcast host who wants to speak with Dr. Leeds, use the contact form. The form is the way to reach him.