Besides practicing psychiatry, for three years in the mid-1990’s, Dr. Gogek and his journalist brother, Jim, wrote a column on the politics of mental health and addiction. It was carried on the New American News Service, a branch of The New York Times Syndicate. Dr. Gogek’s own op-eds have been printed in the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Columbus Dispatch and several other U.S. newspapers. In 2010, he worked with Keep AZ Drug Free, the committee opposing Arizona’s medical marijuana ballot measure. Lastly, in writing Marijuana Debunked, he drew on the experience of his own regular marijuana use for two years of his late teens back in the 1970s.