Smith, David E(lvin)

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SMITH, David E(lvin)

SMITH, David E(lvin). American, b. 1939. Genres: Medicine/Health, Photography. Career: Founder, medical director, and president, Haight Ash- bury Free Clinic, 1967-. Research director, Merritt Perralta Chemical Dependence Recovery Hospital, and associate clinical professor, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, 1967-. Founder and ed., Journal of Psychoactive Drugs; founder and board chairman, National Free Clinic Council; associate medical director and medical review officer, Betty Ford Center; medical director, California Alcohol and Drug Programs; consultant and lecturer. Publications: Drug Abuse Papers, 1969; The New Social Drug, 1970; (co) Love Needs Care: A History of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, 1971; (co) The Free Clinic: Community Approaches to Health Care and Drug Abuse, 1972; (co) It's So Good, Don't Even Try It Once: Heroin in Perspective, 1972; (co) Drugs in the Classroom, 1973; (co) Uppers and Downers, 1973; (co) Barbiturate Use, Misuse, and Abuse, 1977; A Multicultural View of Drug Abuse, 1978; Amphetamine Use, Misuse and Abuse, 1979; PCP: Problems and Prevention, 1982; Substance Abuse and Industry, 1983; The Benzodiazepines: Current Standard Medical Practice, 1984; Treating the Cocaine Abuse, 1985; Drug Free, 1986; A Physician's Guide to Psycho Active Drugs, 1987; The Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, 1988; Treating Opiate Dependency, 1989; The New Drugs, 1989; Crack and Ice in the Era of Smokable Drugs, 1992; Clinicians Guide to Substance Abuse, 2001. Address: c/o Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, 612 Clayton St, San Francisco, CA 94117-2958, U.S.A.

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