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Editor: David Anderson, Public Health Advisor, Public Information and Liaison Branch, Office of Science Policy and Communications

Managing Editor: Johanna Weekley, MasiMax Resources, Inc.

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Editorial Board: David Anderson, Cochair; Public Health Advisor, Public Information and Liaison Branch, Office of Science Policy and Communications

Beverly Wyckoff Jackson, Cochair; Chief, Public Information and Liaison Branch, Office of Science Policy and Communications

Khursheed Asghar, Ph.D., Chief, Basic Sciences Review Branch, Office of Extramural Affairs

Jessica J. Campbell, Ph.D., Health Science Administrator, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research

J.C. Comolli, Public Health Advisor, Center on AIDS and Other Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse

Lee Cummings, Special Assistant to the Director, Division of Treatment Research and Development

Bennett Fletcher, Ph.D., Chief, Services Research Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research

Robin Mackar, Office of Science Policy and Communications

Theresa Montini, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Center for the Clinical Trials Network

Wallace Pickworth, Ph.D., Pharmacologist, Intramural Research Program

Joni Rutter, Ph.D., Program Director, Genetics and Molecular Neurobiology Research Branch, Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research

Vincent Smeriglio, Ph.D., Research Psychologist, Center on AIDS and Other Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse

Jack Stein, Ph.D., Chief, Services Research Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research

Frank Vocci, Ph.D., Director, Division of Treatment Research and Development

Cora Lee Wetherington, Ph.D., Psychologist, Behavioral Sciences Research Branch, Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research

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