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Jerome H. Jaffe was the Drug Czar under the administration of President of the United States Richard Nixon.
Career
Under the administration of President Nixon, Jerome Jaffe was the chief of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), an executive agency created by President Nixon, a member of the Republican Party of the United States. During his career, he popularized the use of methadone treatments for heroin addicts, stating that "There was evidence that methadone treatment was effective. There were some good controlled studies." He also initiated "methadone programs, detoxification programs, and therapeutic communities." Jaffe was a powerful opponent of Ibogaine trials to treat drug dependancy, concentrating instead on lifelong replacement therapies with alternative (yet still addictive) opiates like methadone and buprenorphine.
Currently, Jaffe is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, where he works in the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse. He lives in Maryland and has three grandchildren.