The history of The Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence is traced from its beginning (1929) as The Committee on Drug Addiction to 1989, its sixtieth anniversary. A brief account of the etiology of The Committee from The Bureau of Social Hygiene, established in New York City by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1913 is also given.

CONTRIBUTING REVIEWERS The editors of Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 10 (2015).

OBJECTIVES This study compares 3- and 6-month outcomes of a woman-focused HIV intervention for crack abusers, a revised National Institute on Drug Abuse standard intervention, and a control group. METHODS Out-of-drug-treatment African American women (n = 620) who use crack participated in a randomized field experiment. Risk behavior, employment, and housing status were assessed with linear an...

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