John E. Calfee is a resident scholar at AEI. From 1980 to 1986, he served in the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Calfee taught marketing and consumer behavior in the business schools of the University of Maryland at College Park and Boston University, and he was a visiting senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Prices, Markets, and the Pharmaceutical Revolution (AEI Press, 2000) and Fear of Persuasion: A New Perspective on Advertising and Regulation (AEI Press, 1997).

Jerome H. Jaffe is clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and adjunct professor in the Department of Mental Hygiene at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is an internationally recognized expert on addictions. Dr. Jaffe’s work has included clinical treatment, laboratory and clinical research, teaching, writing, and drug abuse policy, as well as many years of government service. His publications include articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals; chapters in major textbooks of psychiatry, pharmacology, and drug abuse; and books and articles in the popular press. Dr. Jaffe serves on the editorial boards of several journals in the fields of addiction and psychiatry and on many national and international advisory groups. He is a consultant to private and public agencies concerned with drug abuse treatment, to the pharmaceutical industry, and since 1998 to Star Scientific, Inc.

Brad Rodu is a professor of pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and a senior scientist at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, with additional faculty appointments in Epidemiology and Otolaryngology. For a decade his research has focused on a harm reduction strategy for inveterate smokers involving permanent nicotine maintenance with alternative products including smokeless tobacco. These studies, published in prestigious medical and scientific journals such as Nature, the American Journal of Medicine, Epidemiology, Cancer, and the Journal of Clinical Oncology, can be reviewed at the university research web site www.uab.edu/smokersonly. Dr. Rodu has also written commentaries on tobacco issues for the general press, and he is the author of For Smokers Only: How Smokeless Tobacco Can Save Your Life.

Sally Satel is a practicing psychiatrist, a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, and a resident scholar at AEI where she researches domestic drug policy, mental health policy, and political trends in medicine. Her articles have been published in The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. The author of PC, M.D., Dr. Satel currently works as a staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Drug Treatment Clinic.