Ronald Keith Siegel (January 2, 1943 – March 24, 2019) was an..
Ronald Keith Siegel (January 2, – March 24, ) was an American psychopharmacologist who was an associate research professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ronald K. Siegel, a leading authority on psychoactive substances who believed the war on drugs was futile because the pursuit of intoxication.
Siegel was the author of several noted studies and books on psychopharmacology, hallucination, and paranoia. A native of Herkimer, New York, he received his B.A. in sociology from Brandeis University and his Ph.D. in psychology from Dalhousie University.
He was affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University before joining the research faculty of UCLA in , where he remained until his retirement in Throughout his career, he was a consultant to several government commissions on drug use.
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