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Leadership | NIDA

Nora Volkow, M.D.

Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health

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Wilson Compton, M.D., M.P.H.

Deputy Director Director of NIDA

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Previous Directors

Name	In Office from	To
Robert L. DuPont	1973	1978
William Pollin	1979	1985
Charles R. Schuster	1986	1992
Richard A. Millstein (Acting)	1992	1994
Alan I. Leshner	1994	2001
Glen R. Hanson, (Acting)	2001	2003