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Acknowledgements

The World Health Organization acknowledges with thanks the many authors,
reviewers, consultants and WHO staff members whose expertise made this
report possible. Franco Vaccarino of the Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, was the principal
editor for the report, with the assistance of Susan Rotzinger from the Centre
for Addiction and Mental Health. The opening and closing chapters were
written by Robin Room of the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and
Drugs, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, with contributions from
Isidore Obot and Maristela Monteiro of the Department of Mental Health
and Substance Abuse, WHO.
Special acknowledgement is made to the following individuals who
contributed reviews that formed the basis for the final report:
Helena M. T. Barros, Federal University of Medical Sciences Foundation,
Porto Alegre, Brazil; Lucy Carter, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University
of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia; David Collier, Section of
Genetics, Institute of Psychiatry, London, England; Gaetano Di Chiara,
Department of Toxicology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy; Patricia
Erickson, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
Sofia Gruskin, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard
University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Wayne Hall, Institute
for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland,
Australia; Jack Henningfield, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
and Pinney Associates, Bethesda, MD, USA; Kathleen M. Kantak, Department
of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Brigitte Kieffer, Ecole
Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France; Harald
Klingemann, School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences, Berne,
Switzerland; Mary Jeanne Kreek, Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive
Diseases, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA; Sture Liljequist, Division
of Drug Dependence Research, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden;
Rafael Maldonado, Laboratory of Neuropharmacology, Pompeu Fabre
University, Barcelona, Spain; Athina Markou, Scripps Research Institute, La
Jolla, CA, USA; Gina Morato, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Santa
Catarina, Brazil; Katherine Morley, Institute for Molecular Bioscience,
University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia; Karen Plafker,
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard University

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