Brown celebrates 30th anniversary of Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies.

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David Orenstein

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brated the 30th anniversary of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies with a daylong colloquium on Sept. 21. Keynote speaker DAVID ABRAMS came to Brown in the late 1970s as a clinical psychology intern interested in behavior therapy treatment of tobacco and alcohol addiction. Here he found a stalwart cadre of empathetic academics and clinicians who didn’t see addiction as a question of immorality or bad habits. Among them were founding director DR. DAVID LEWIS and the CAAS current director, PETER MONTI. Dr. Lewis saw drug addiction this way: “Drug misuse is a complex social, economic, and physiological problem in which the actual substances play only one part.” In the ’70s, Brown’s medical school and community health department had just begun, and interest in addiction was scattered around Brown and area hospitals. But in 1976 DR. STANLEY ARONSON, Brown’s inaugural dean of medicine, recruited Dr. Lewis from Harvard to develop an addiction studies program at Brown. With substantial support from President Howard Swearer and key donors, Lewis launched CAAS in the 1982-83 school year. Monti joined the following year. Under Dr. Lewis and Monti, who succeeded Lewis in 2000 as the Donald G. Millar Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, CAAS has grown from a small office in Arnold lab with a budget of $1,500 into a prolific center with 28 full-time faculty members, $13.3 million in grant awards this year, and an enduring influence in research, medical and postdoctoral training, and local and national policy. “From very small beginnings it became a national leader,” said Abrams. After he left Brown in 2004, he served as director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health and now serves as a professor at Johns Hopkins University.

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