Allen Childs, M.D. has been a psychiatrist for 47 years. He served as the U.S. Army's Chief of Mental Hygiene for the Island of Oahu during the Vietnam War where he published the first report on the soldier addicts of that conflict. Since then he has authored in fields as diverse as brain injury, rehabilitation medicine, psychopharmacology and treatment-resistant aggression. He spent his childhood on the historic East 6th Street, in Austin, Texas. His family's mom and pop shoe store was imbedded in a rich multiracial neighborhood matrix. told in his 2010 book, Sixth Street.