Jaffe, Jerome interview conducted by Campbell/Spillane

Abstract

Jerome H. Jaffe, M.D., is Adjunct Professor, Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is internationally recognized as an expert on addictions. As the first White House “Drug Czar,” Dr. Jaffe initiated many of the basic and epidemiological research programs that formed the groundwork for ongoing efforts in drug abuse research, and he introduced programs that radically altered drug abuse treatment in the United States. His more than 200 publications include peer reviewed articles in scientific journals, chapters in textbooks of psychiatry, pharmacology, and drug abuse, and articles in the popular press. Dr. Jaffe is on the editorial boards of several journals, has served on national and international advisory groups, and is a consultant to private and public agencies concerned with drug abuse treatment and policy. He is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (Distinguished Life), American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (Emeritus), American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, The College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD), and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Society for the Study of Addiction in the UK. Sources: Friends Research Institute. https://friendsresearch.org/people/jerome-h-jaffe/ Accessed 07 June 2023.