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Name
  
Robert DuPont


Role
  
Medical Doctor


Education
  
Harvard Medical School, Emory University

Books
  
The selfish brain, The Anxiety Cure for, The Anxiety Cure: An, Getting tough on gateway, A bridge to recovery

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Robert L. DuPont (born March 25, 1936 in Toledo, Ohio) is a national leader in marijuana policy, drug policy and treatment. He was the first Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) from 1973 to 1978 and was the second White House Drug Czar from 1973 to 1977 under former Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. In 1978 Dr. DuPont became the founding President of the Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc. In 1982 he and Peter B. Bensinger founded Bensinger, DuPont & Associates, a national consulting firm. Dr. DuPont is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He was the founding president of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA) and currently maintains a psychiatric practice in Maryland specializing in addiction and anxiety disorders.

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In 1958 Dr. DuPont earned his BA from Emory University and in 1963 earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed training at Harvard and the National Institutes of Health. He worked for the District of Columbia Department of Corrections and in 1970 for the DC Narcotics Treatment Administration. Since 1980 he has been a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Published books from Hazelden include The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction, Drug Testing in Treatment Settings, Drug Testing in Schools, and Drug Testing in Correctional Settings.

His claims that marijuana is "the most dangerous drug", may at first seem at odds with current scientific consensus, however the emphasis of that claim pertains only to those drugs that are illegal under federal law. Alcohol is not an illegal drug, is only illegal to sell or provide alcohol to a minor. Dr. DuPont is a strong proponent of the prevention of addiction to alcohol and other drugs before it starts.

In 1981 he served as a paid consultant for Straight, Incorporated, one of the few drug treatment programs at that time that enrolled adolescents. While viewed by some as a "controversial non-profit drug rehabilitation program" which was the subject of numerous allegations of abuse and which was successfully sued for false imprisonment and maltreatment, the program was viewed favorably by many notables such as Nancy Reagan and Princess Diana.

The Institute for Behavior and Health, of which Dr. DuPont is President, seeks to reduce the use of alcohol and non-medical drugs through conducting research, promoting ideas that are affordable and scalable, linking with other individuals and groups to create synergies, and presenting new ideas at national meetings and in the media and by writing papers and reports that appear in leading journals and publications.

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