Marc Auriacombe is a Professor of Psychiatry and Addiction medicine at the Medical School of the University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA., USA. He is the director of the addiction research team at CNRS USR 3413 Sanpsy and medical director of the Addiction Treatment Services of the Charles Perrens Hospital in Bordeaux, France. He is the principal senior investigator of an integrated addiction research program funded by French national and European funds. Marc Auriacombe was awarded the EUROPAD Award 2002 “Chimera d’Argento” “Dedicated to all those who dream of a better world for drug addicts” and has published over 200 papers in research and educational journals and books in English, French and Spanish.