2008 Idaho Conference on Health Care
Dr. Glen Hanson
Dr. Glen Hanson has doctorates in dentistry from UCLA and pharmacology from the University of Utah and practiced dentistry for approximately 10 years. He is the former acting director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), at the National Institutes of Health, and currently is a Senior Advisor to NIDA, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Utah, as well as the director of the Utah Addiction Center. He has worked closely with the State of Utah and Salt Lake County Divisions of Substance Abuse to develop substance abuse training for physicians, drug abuse workers and other health professionals. He also is a member of the Utah Governor’s Methamphetamine Task Force. Dr. Hanson has a long history of NIDA-funded research and has written ~ 200 scientific research papers on drugs of abuse, in particular methamphetamine and other psychostimulants, and their effects on brain chemistry and function. Dr. Hanson lectures all over the country and around the world on drug abuse and addiction topics and is the author of a widely used 9th edition college text on drug abuse entitled “Drugs and Society”. He has testified several times before members of Congress and been interviewed many times by the national and local press as an expert on drug abuse issues.