Today's Google Doodle honors addiction researcher Herbert Kleber
In the 1960s, Kleber worked for the U.S. Public Health Service at a prison hospital in Kentucky, and he noticed that most of the inmates who came to the prison with drug addictions relapsed as soon as they left. Believing that there must be a better way to treat addiction, Kleber began researching addiction as a medical issue. His approach focused on looking for scientific evidence of which therapies and medications actually helped addicts and which were ineffective.
Kleber founded a department dedicated to researching and treating addiction at Yale University in 1968. In 1989, he left Yale to serve as Deputy Director for Demand Reduction at the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George H.W. Bush.
“Of course I’m an optimist,” he reportedly said. “How else do I work with addicts for 40 years?” On October 1, 1996, Kleber was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the American medical field’s highest honors. He died on October 5, 2018.
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