About the Authors

Don C. Des Jarlais

ddesjarlais@chpnet.org

Affiliation The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Jonathan P. Feelemyer

Affiliation The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Shilpa N. Modi

Affiliation The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Kamyar Arasteh

Affiliation The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Bradley M. Mathers

Affiliation National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Louisa Degenhardt

Affiliation National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Holly Hagan

Affiliation College of Nursing, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DCD HHH JPF KA. Performed the experiments: JPF SNM KA. Analyzed the data: DCD HHH JPF SNM KA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DCD HHH JPF SNM KA. Wrote the paper: DCD HHH JPF SNM BMM LD KA.