Dr. Meera Wasami is a Tenured Professor and Director of the WHO Collaborative National Drug Dependence Treatment Center at All India Institute of Medical Sciences. She holds a PhD from University of Delhi and completed postdoctoral training at AIIMS. Dr. Wasami received prestigious awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, chaired Addiction sessions at American Psychiatric Association meetings (2002–2012), and was awarded a UN Fellowship at the University of Glasgow. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. She has invited to publish chapters on addiction for “Elsevier Publications”; in “International Series of Addiction” Praeger Publications, USA"; in "Advances in Psychology “Nova Science Publishers’, Inc. USA". in "Genomics and Health in the Developing World” Oxford Publishers" ; in "Substance Use Disorder, Indian Publishers".