Steven grew-up in an orthodox Jewish home with a live-in uncle who owned a pharmacy. He also lived with an alcoholic father, who emotionally and physically abused him. “Sometimes he didn’t talk for months -- when I said he drank too much, he locked me in the closet...”

Like his uncle, Steven “... always wanted to be a pharmacist.” Steven graduated from the Massachusetts School of Pharmacy with honors in 1967. While in school, Steven was referred to as the “wizard of pharmacology.” He studied hard -- and still does -- but, while in school, he used every drug he studied. “I never used street drugs... I had a pharmacy!”