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A.Thomas McLellan, Ph.D. CEO and co-founder of the Treatment Research Institute (TRI), in Philadelphia, PA. receives the Lisa Mojer-Torres Award from Faces and Voices of Recovery annual America Honors Recovery Ceremony in Washington, D.C.. The Lisa Mojer-Torres Award recognizes a person whose life and work personifies Faces & Voices commitment to all pathways to recovery. Dr McLellan is the first recipient of this award who is not in recovery from addiction.

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A.Thomas McLellan, Ph.D. Treatment Research Institute (TRI), Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. McLellan is the CEO and co-founder of the Treatment Research Institute (TRI) and is one of the leading addiction researchers in the world.  From 2009 to 2010, he was Science Advisor and Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a Congressionally confirmed Presidential appointment to help shape the nation’s public policy approach to illicit drug use.  Dr. McLellan has more than 35 years of experience in addiction treatment research and has long championed the expansion of evidence-based treatments throughout the addiction field.  In the 1980s, with his colleagues from the Center for the Studies of Addiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. McLellan introduced the Addiction Severity Index and, later, the Treatment Services Review. Both are among the most widely used assessment instruments in the world.

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