Clinician's Guide To Cocaine Addiction

Thomas R. Kosten, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Substance Abuse Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine. A Research Scientist Awardee of the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 1987, he is a member of the Committee for Added Qualifications in Addiction Psychiatry on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the board of directors of the Committee on the Problems of Drug Dependence. He is a founding member of the American Academy of Psychiatrists in Alcoholism and Addiction, where he has been chairman for scientific programs and research and currently serves as a member at large. In 1990, the Committee on the Problems of Drug Dependence awarded him the Cochin Award for his contributions to the development of medications to treat substance abuse. He is an editorial board member on a number of professional journals and has published over 200 papers, books, and reviews.