Background
Goldstein was born on July 3, 1919, in New York City, New York, United States to Israel and Bert Goldstein and had a younger sister, Vivian. He grew up in Manhattan.
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1984
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1986
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1999
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Drug addiction is a brain disease--that's the modern view and it is fully expressed in this up-to-date book. Among the many volumes on drugs written for lay readers, this one is unique in the breadth of its coverage and the depth of its science. The first part gives a clear scientific account of the nature of addiction, stressing neurobiology and addictive behavior and describing the "highs" that drugs can produce. The second section covers the seven families of addictive drugs, with emphasis on their actions in the brain and on psychological aspects: nicotine, alcohol, heroin and other opiates, cocaine and amphetamines, marijuana, caffeine, and hallucinogens like LSD. The third section deals with laws and drug control policies. Throughout, the author gives many interesting personal accounts of addiction research, to which he has highlighted new research on the genetics and neurobiology of susceptibility to addiction.
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2001
neurobiologist Pharmacologist scientist
Goldstein was born on July 3, 1919, in New York City, New York, United States to Israel and Bert Goldstein and had a younger sister, Vivian. He grew up in Manhattan.
Goldstein attended the progressive Walden School. He then was admitted to Harvard at age 15. He graduated from Harvard in 1940 and Harvard Medical School in 1943.
Goldstein served in the U.S. Army in Colorado during World War II, treating soldiers returning from Europe. From 1947 till 1955, he interned at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. In 1955, Goldstein became a professor and chair of the pharmacology department at Stanford University, and then, was promoted to Addiction Research Foundation Professor Emeritus.
Goldstein established the Pharmacology Department at Stanford University School of Medicine. He helped orchestrate the medical school’s emergence in the 1950s as a powerhouse for medical research by recruiting its faculty and shaping its curriculum, wrote a pharmacology textbook, founded a journal, organized California’s first major methadone program and made breakthrough discoveries in his lab about how narcotic drugs work in the brain.
Goldstein published more than 360 research articles and won several major awards in pharmacology.
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1986(Exercises and score sheets to sharpen your skills. Here's...)
1999Goldstein was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and its Institute of Medicine.
Physical Characteristics: In the 1970s, Goldstein was treated for lymphoma, one of the first patients to receive radiation, and recovered fully. However, he was confined to a wheelchair in his last decade, after a spinal-cord injury, and relied on his longtime caregiver Mara Passi.
Quotes from others about the person
“Avram was a tough mentor in the sense that he had high expectations and standards — but he was also exceedingly fair. I regard it as an incredibly lucky stroke that I ended up stumbling into his lab,” recalled Charles Weitz, MD, PhD, a professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School who from 1984-88 was a graduate student in the Goldstein lab.
“He was courageous and was an activist — that was his personality,” said biochemist and Nobel laureate Paul Berg, PhD, who was among the faculty at Stanford University.
Goldstein’s first wife, Naomi Friedman, died in a car accident in 1946. He married Dora (Dody) Benedict, who would become a distinguished pharmacologist and Stanford professor herself, in 1948. During 62 years of marriage, they raised four children, and spent sabbatical years in Edinburgh, Copenhagen and Cambridge, England.
