The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University

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Center on Addiction, formerly The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, is a science-based, multidisciplinary organization focused on transforming society's understanding of and response to the disease of addiction.

It was founded in 1992,^[1] by Former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano, Jr.^[2][3]

In 2015, the center partnered with the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale School of Public Health to form a new addiction and research center in New Haven.^[4]

The center does an annual survey tracking teens' attitudes on drinking, smoking and drug abuse.^[5]

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• Center on Addiction