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RWJF Makes Multiple Grants to Addiction Programs
September 19, 2003

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Programs working on the issue of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug addiction have received grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Under its substance-abuse program area, the foundation awarded:

  • $743,296 to the American Medical Association for a program on binge drinking by college students.
  • $142,654 to the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation for an education campaign on clean indoor air.
  • $229,344 to Chestnut Health Systems of Bloomington, Ind., and $1 million to the County of Santa Cruz (Calif.) Probation Department, both to help teens avoid addiction and crime.
  • $349,000 to the Washington, D.C., political consulting firm Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, Burns and Associates to educate the public about tobacco taxes and clean air.
  • $500,000 to the Legal Action Center for a national advocacy campaign on addiction.
  • $130,000 to the Northwestern University Medical School to analyze data on youth addiction and delinquency.
  • $10,000 to Samaritan Inns of Washington, D.C., to provide residential treatment for homeless people with addictions.
  • 6 grants totaling more than $1 million via the foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program.
The foundation also made awards in the areas of chronic and long-term disease.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, College Road East, P.O. Box 2315, Princeton, NJ 08543; 888-631-9989; e-mail: mail@rwjf.org.