His father, Joe (Joseph) Roizen, was born in Chisināu. He is the brother of Peter Roizen and Heidi Roizen. Ron Roizen is an independent scholar and author of some of the earliest interdisciplinary studies of the alcoholism industry. He works in Kaye Fillmore's research group at the Scientific Analysis Corporation in San Francisco and Alameda, California. Ron Roizen began work in the alcohol social arena in the late 1960s when, as an architectural analyst, he toured alcoholism treatment facilities in five American cities in an NIMH survey team headed by Friedner Wittman. This study represented an early federal government effort to gain a better understanding of the breadth and diversity of facilities i n the U.S. alcohol treatment domain. It preceded the creation of NIAAA on December 31, 1970, which agency assumed responsibility for alcohol related research thereafter. Not long after the NIMH study Ron began working with the Social Research Group (later, renamed the Alcohol Research Group) in Berkeley, upon hearing of an opening there via his then wife, Judy, who was a college friend of Robin Room's then wife, Elizabeth. At ARG, Ron worked with and learned the craft from Genevieve Knupfer, Don Cahalan, Walter Clark, Robin Room, and a legion of pre- and post-doc- toral fellows who took advantage of the group's fellowship program. Now, in semi- retirement in northern Idaho, Ron writes grants part-time for Shoshone County.