Stephen H. Frye, M.D., was born in Boston and educated at Boston Latin School and Boston University, and earned his M.D. degree at the George Washington University School of Medicine. After his internship in 1968-1969 at the San Francisco General Hospital, he was drafted as a physician and volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets) during the Vietnam era. After his military service, he completed his psychiatric training at the Langley Porter Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the University of California, San Francisco. He served as the Director of Mental Health for Sonoma County, Calif., for four years, then founded a private practice multi-specialty mental health group and directed it for 18 years. He concluded his distinguished career by teaching for one year at the University of Nevada School of Medicine before retiring. Dr. Frye then hosted a radio talk show in Reno called “Politics and Health,” where he first became interested in drug legalization. After more than three years of full-time study and research, he has become an expert on drug issues. He’s the divorced father of two adult sons, and is also a pianist, sailor, skier, and world traveler, having visited 45 countries, 44 states, and 8 Canadian provinces.
