Lloyd I. Seder­er, MD, is Chief Med­ical Offi­cer for the NYS Office of Men­tal Health, the nation’s largest state men­tal health agency; Adjunct Pro­fes­sor at the Columbia/​Mailman School of Pub­lic Health; and Con­tribut­ing Writer for a vari­ety of online pub­li­ca­tions. He has writ­ten hun­dreds of arti­cles in men­tal health and addic­tions and has pub­lished a dozen books.