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The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) says that a proposal to reorganize the federal government’s major research agencies on substance abuse and addictions into a single entity „makes scientific sense,“ and has outlined a planning process to create a new Institute for „substance use, abuse, and addiction research and related public health initiatives.“
In a November 18 message sent to NIH employees and in a press release issued the same day, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., said a new single Institute would „enhance NIH’s efforts to address the substance abuse and addiction problems that take such a terrible toll on our society.“ … (Source: Join Together, 11/22/10)

The Institute of Medicine has presented the 2010 Gustav O. Lienhard Award to Joseph A. Califano Jr., founder and chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University and former U.S. secretary of health, education, and welfare. The award honors Califano for his leadership in catalyzing federal action to curb smoking and his broader efforts to reduce the toll of addiction and substance abuse, as well as for his contributions to improving public health in general. (Source: Medical News Today, 10/12/10)