“Dr. Beny J. Primm was recently honored by the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI) and presented with the Lifetime Contribution Award by Dr. H. Westley Clark, MD, and Mr. Joseph Lunievicz at The Masonic Temple on at 71 West 23rd Street, NY, NY.
Dr. Primm is the co-founder of Addiction Research Treatment Corporation (Now known as SMART) served as its Executive Director for more than 40 years, and as President of the Urban Resource Institute since its creation in 1980. Selected by four U.S. Presidents to serve as a consultant on a variety of substance abuse and public health issues, he was appointed to the Commission on AIDS by President Ronald Reagan, selected as the first Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment of the US Department of Health and Human Services by President George Bush, and named U.S. Representative on issues of drug addiction and AIDS to the World Health Organization in Geneva.”
Source: Calvin Anderson – April 28, 2014