Marc Galanter is Professor of Psychiatry at

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and has served as the Founding Director of the Division of

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and

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. His studies have addressed

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for substance abuse, pharmacologic treatment for

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, and Twelve Step recovery for addiction. He is an author of over 200 peer-reviewed articles. He chairs Twelve Step Interest Groups in AAAP, ASAM, and the International Society of Addiction Medicine and teaches at the New York University School of Medicine. Galanter attended

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(1969–1971) where he did his residency in psychiatry. After that he was a Clinical Associate at the

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and then an NIH Career Teacher. He later served as president of the

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(AMERSA) (1976–1977), the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (1991–1992), and the

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(1999–2001).

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