A For Real Drug Czar – Dr. Nora Volkow

The New York Times has an in depth profile on Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and one of the top scientists in the field of addiction. You can read the whole profile here.

They also have a great video interview with her if you don’t feel like reading the whole article:

Dr. Volkow Factoid – She is the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky.