Drugs: Myths and Realities

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Moderator

Ms. Sondra Friedman
The Experimental College Colloquium on Drugs, National Security and U.S. Public Policy, Tufts University

Panelists

Dr. Jerri Husch

Dr. Conan Kornetsky
A Professor of psychiatry and pharmacology, Boston University School of Medicine, he has sat on the advisory committee for NIDA and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse. He is the author of numerous papers on drug abuse, including The Effects of Cocaine on Local Cerebral Metabolic Activity (with Dr. Linda Porrino), and his research concentrates on how drugs achieve their rewarding effects.

Dr. Klaus Miczek
A Professor of psychology, Tufts University, he is a psychopharmacologist studying drugs of abuse and alcohol, and he focuses on the relationship between the substances and violence and aggression. Associate Editor, International Aggression, he co-edited Ethopharmacology of Social Conflict and Communication

Dr. Craig Reinarman
Professor of sociology at Northeastern University and a post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in the School of Public Health, he is also the co-principal investigator of a NIDA grant on cocaine use and the co-author of Cocaine Changes.