Biography

Marc Auriacombe is Professor of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine at the University of Bordeaux and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the leader of an addiction research team at Sanpsy CNRS USR 3413 laboratory and is Chief of the Addiction Treatment Services of the Charles Perrens Hospital and CHU Hospitals in Bordeaux. Professor Auriacombe and his colleagues have vast clinical experience with treatments such as opium tincture (1984), buprenorphine (1986) and methadone (1993). Professor Auriacombe is the Principal Senior Investigator of an integrated addiction research program funded by French national and European funds, focusing on commonalities between substance and non-substance addictions.