Cecelia McNamara Spitznas, Ph.D. is Senior Science Policy Analyst at the Office National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a component of the Executive Office of the President. She has been a career federal employee for 23 years including 12 years at the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (one on detail to ONDCP). She has been at ONDCP through three different presidential administrations. While at NIDA Dr. Spitznas oversaw extramural research on addiction treatment development and provider training, especially provision of these by computerized and mobile platforms. Prior to her federal experience she worked as an Assistant Professor in the UAB School of Medicine conducting NIH funded research with people who used crack cocaine and were homeless. She completed an American Psychological Association internship at U.A.B. and a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in addiction treatment research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In 1998 Dr. Spitznas graduated with her Ph.D. in experimental psychology (major clinical, minor psychobiology) from the University of New Mexico. She holds a BA in psychology from Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Her father, the inspiration for her work in this field battled alcohol addiction his entire life and cycled into recovery many times with the aid of 12-Step Fellowship and residential treatment, taught her that people can and do recover. Her ONDCP policy portfolio includes opioids, naloxone, drug affected infants, behavioral therapies and medications for addiction treatment, stimulants, cannabis and psychedelics.