History
Drug Strategies, created in 1993 with support from major foundations, is a non-profit research institute that promotes more effective drug abuse prevention, education, and treatment.
Mission
Our mission is to identify and promote more effective approaches to substance abuse and to increase public understanding of current research on what works and what does not.
Board of Directors
Officers
Philip B. Heyman
Board Chair
Harvard Law School Professor
Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General
Mathea Falco
President, Drug Strategies
Former U.S. Secretary of State for International Narcotic Matters
Directors
- Louise Bryson
- Chair Emerita, J. Paul Getty Trust
- Charles Kirkwood
- President, Shawnee Holding LLC
- Marian Wright Edelman
- President, Children’s Defense Fund
- Dr. A. Thomas McLellan
- Former Deputy Director, U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy
- James R. Jones
- Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Former Member of Congress
- Morris Panner
- CEO, Ambra Health
- Michael Kantor
- Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Former U.S. Trade Representative
- Marni Vliet
- Former President, Kansas Health Foundation
- Hubert Williams
- Former President, Police Foundation
Former Board Members
- Robert Carswell (1928–2016)
- Senior Partner, Shearman & Sterling
- Dr. Dean Jamison
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
- Dr. David A. Kessler
- Former FDA Commissioner
Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology
UCSF
- Charles Ruff (1939–2000)
- Former White House Counsel
- Dr. Michael Crichton (1942–2008)
- Author, Film Director
- Mark Kleiman (1951-2019)
- Professor of Public Policy, NYU
Chairman, BOTEC Analysis Corporation
- Dr. Thomas Schelling (1921–2016)
- Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
- Neil Goldschmidt
- Former Governor of Oregon, Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- Robert S. McNamara (1916–2009)
- Former President, World Bank
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Herbert Sturz
- Senior Advisor, Open Society Foundations
- Dr. Avram Goldstein (1919–2012)
- Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, Stanford University
- Norval Morris (1923–2004)
- University of Chicago Law School
- Hope Taft
- Co-Founder, Ohio Parents for a Drug-Free Youth
- Dr. Pedro José Greer
- Florida International University School of Medicine
- Dr. Robert B. Millman (1939–2017)
- Psychiatrist, New York
- Nancy Dickerson Whitehead (1927–1997)
- President, Television Corporation of America
- Dr. Margaret Hamburg
- Former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Former Commissioner of Health, New York City
- Howard E. Prunty
- Former President, National Association of Black Social Workers
- Lee Hamilton
- Former Director, The Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
- Alice Rivlin (1931-2019)
- Brookings Institution
Former Vice Chair, Federal Reserve
Foundation Support
Drug Strategies has received generous support from the following foundations:
Abell Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
The Bonderman Family Foundation
Carolyn and Kenneth Brody Foundation
John and Louise Bryson Family Fund
The California Endowment
Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Cisco Foundation
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
The Commonwealth Fund
Fannie Mae Foundation (FNMA)
Ford Foundation
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
William T. Grant Foundation
Mimi and Peter Haas Foundation
Hamilton County Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services Board (Ohio)
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Horizon Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Kansas Health Foundation
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
The New York Community Trust
Open Society Foundations
The Lisa and John Pritzker Family Fund
The Spencer Foundation
STAR Alliance for Drug-Free Youth
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
University of Minnesota Institute on Criminal Justice
Whitehead Foundation
Contact Us
2101 L St. NW, Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20037
drugstrategies@gmail.com