A Report to the Ford Foundation
THE DRUG ABUSE SURVEY PROJECT
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Patricia M. Wald is
a graduate of the Yale Law School. She has served as a member of
the District of Columbia Crime Commission; as a consultant to the
President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration
of Justice, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders,
and the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of
Violence; and as a staff attorney for Neighborhood Legal Services
and for the Center for Law and Social Policy. Since January 1,
1972, she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ford
Foundation.
Peter Barton Hutt is
a graduate of Exeter Academy, Yale University, and the Harvard
Law School. At the time of the study, he was a partner in the
Washington law firm of Covington & Burling, and at present he
is General Council of the Food and Drug Administration. He is a
member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine
and has been deeply involved in medical and governmental projects
involving alcoholism and drug abuse.
James V. DeLong is
also a graduate of the Harvard Law School. He has been a
litigation attorney, a Special Assistant in the Department of
Housing and Urban Development, and a Senior Staff Member of the
Program Evaluation Staff of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget. He now
works for the Drug Abuse Council.
Peter A. Wilson, a
graduate of Princeton University, is finishing his dissertation
in political science at the University of Chicago. He is also a
consultant to the Rand Corporation.
John F. Holahan holds
a doctorate in economics from Georgetown University. He is now at
the Urban Institute working on healtheconomics problems.
Annette Abrams is
a graduate of Howard University. She has been a Staff Assistant
to a Midwestern senator and a member of the Staff of the National
Coordinating Council on Drug Education. She now works for the
Drug Abuse Council.
Peter B. Goldberg is
a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and is
finishing the requirements for a graduate degree in urban
planning at George Washington University. He now works for the
Drug Abuse Council.
Paul A. Henningsen, a former legislative assistant and press secretary to a
Midwestern congressman, has also been involved in the promotion
of minority business development. A graduate of Lawrence
University, he now works for the Drug Abuse Council.
Dr. Andrew T. Weil is a graduate of Harvard Medical School. He is a
co-author of some of the first clinical studies of marijuana done
in this country in modern times and of a recent book on drugs. At
present, he is engaged in a study of drug use among Indians in
South America.
Edgar May holds a
degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He has been a
reporter for several newspapers and has won numerous journalistic
awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. From 1964 to 1968 he was
with the Office of Economic Opportunity, first as Special
Assistant to the Director and then as Director of the Office of
Inspection. Subsequently he was Special Adviser to the United
States Ambassador to France. He is now a free-lance journalist
based in Paris.