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The Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs (CDAP) at
Medical University of South Carolina The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is a public medical school in South Carolina. It opened in 1824 in Charleston as a small private college aimed at training physicians and has since established hospitals and medical facilities acr ...
(MUSC) is located in
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. The center provides treatment and research for drug, alcohol and
substance addiction Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to engage in certain behaviors, one of which is the usage of a drug, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences. Repetitive drug use o ...
. It is one of only 14
National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
(NIH) funded Alcohol Research Centers in the United States. In 2012, the Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs, through its affiliation with MUSC’s College of Medicine, ranked as one of America’s Best Graduate Schools for the study of drug and alcohol abuse by the '' U.S. News & World Report''. The director of CDAP is Raymond Anton, M.D. He is an addiction psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist, as well as a professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at MUSC.


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Center of Alcohol Studies The Center of Alcohol Studies (CAS) is a multidisciplinary research institute located in the Busch Campus of Rutgers University, which performs clinical and biomedical research on alcohol use and misuse. The center was originally at Yale Universit ...


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