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History
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 David
Musto
Professor of Child Psychology &
History of Medicine (School of Medicine)
Dr. David F. Musto is the leading historian of
drug policy in the United States. He is the author
of four major works on drug regulation in America:
The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control
(Oxford 3d ed. 1999), One Hundred Years of Heroin
(Auburn 2002), Drugs In America: A Documentary
History (NYU 2002), and The Quest for Drug
Control (Yale 2002). He has been a member of
the Yale Medical School faculty since 1969. His
research has centered on social history, particularly
the development of policies involving alcohol, narcotics,
AIDS, the family and mental health.
Dr. Musto has investigated many areas touching
on history and medicine and has been called upon
to serve the nation in various capacities including
membership on the White House Strategy Council on
Drug Abuse Policy during the Carter administration,
membership from 1981 to 1990 on the National Council
of the Smithsonian Institution and as historical
consultant to the Presidential Commission on the
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic.
Dr. Musto is a charter Fellow of the College on
Problems of Drug Dependence, and a member of the
alcohol advisory committee of the National Association
of Broadcasters. Dr. Musto has published widely
in professional journals and is particularly noted
for his study of drug policy. His essays on social
issues have appeared in the general media such as
the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles
Times and Washington Post and he has been featured
as a commentator on social policy by news magazines
and television networks. In 1992 he hosted and narrated
the NOVA (public television science series) program,
"Can You Stop People from Drinking?" Dr. Musto received
the B.A. in classical languages in 1956 and in 1963
the M.D. degree from the University of Washington,
and the M.A. from Yale in 1961.
david.musto@yale.edu
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