Darryl S. Inaba

After leaving the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inaba became the Clinical Director of Genesis Recovery Center in Central Point, Oregon, from 2005 till 2008. He is now the Director of Clinical and Behavioral health Services at the Addiction Recovery Center in Medford, Oregon.

Inaba was the CEO and president of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics from 1989-2005, as well as the past chairman of the San Francisco Asian American Substance Abuse Task Force. He is also the first lifelong Fellow of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics. While at the Free Clinic (1967-2005) Inaba had a great interest in the development culturally consistent substance abuse treatment services.

In the 1980s, Inaba set up the Asian American Recovery Services and, with the Reverend Cecil Williams, he helped set up the Facts on Crack program for Glide African American Extended Family Services.

In 1969, Inaba co-founded the Detoxification and Rehabilitation Unit of the Haight Ashbury Clinic with Skip Gay, M.D., in response to the epidemic of methamphetamine and heroin addiction. As director of detox, Inaba supervised the treatment of some 350,000 addicts and alcoholics who were self-referred.

Inaba was one of the original volunteers at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics in San Francisco which was founded by Dr. David E. Smith in response to the medical needs of the thousands of young people who descended upon San Francisco for the Summer of Love. The Free Clinic opened on June 6, 1967.

The Clinic was initially funded through proceeds of benefit concerts, many of which were organized by Bill Graham. The first of such benefit concerts took place on July 13, 1967 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California. Another, titled "Dr. Sunday's Medicine Show", took place on October 8, 1967 in San Jose, California.

Through the benefit concerts organized with Bill Graham in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Inaba and Dr. George "Skip" Gay created The Rock Medicine Services in the spring of 1973. Bill Graham staged two consecutive Saturday concerts at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, California, featuring The Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin. Bill Graham asked the clinic to staff a "medical emergency care tent" during both concerts. These small stadium concerts, about 18,000 at the Dead and 25,000 at Led Zeppelin, evolved into Bill Graham's Days on the Green concert series. The "medical emergency care tent" became Rock Medicine, a branch of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics that still exists today and provides medical care at various Bay Area music concerts and events.

Darryl S. Inaba, PharmD., was born June 16, 1946 in Denver, Colorado. He is the remaining owner and President of CNS Productions, Inc. in Medford, OR. He is an associate professor of Pharmacology at the UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, California and the Director of Clinical and Behavioral Health Services at ARC (Addiction Recovery Center) in Medford, Oregon. He is also special consultant and instructor for the University of Utah School of Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies, as well as the Director of Education and Research at CNS Productions. Dr. Inaba is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, which has been published since 1967.