Immediate Past President
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Bryon Adinoff
Biography
Bryon Adinoff, MD is an addiction psychiatrist and academician. Dr. Adinoff is presently a Clinical Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He retired in 2018 as the Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and as a psychiatrist for 30 years with the Department of Veterans Affairs, where he served as the director of substance use disorder treatment programs at both the Charleston, SC and Dallas, TX VA Medical Centers. Dr. Adinoff obtained his medical training at Michigan State University, completed his residency in psychiatry at Tulane University, and obtained a fellowship in the Laboratory of Clinical Studies at the National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Adinoff’s laboratory focused on using a variety of pharmacologic, cognitive, and behavioral probes to explore the neural and endocrine disruptions that occur in cocaine and alcohol use disorders and, more recently, compulsive tanning. Dr. Adinoff has published more than 200 articles, reviews, and book chapters on the biology and treatment of addiction and he is the Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Dr. Adinoff’s research has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and Department of Veterans Affairs. He has been recognized as a Distinguished Fellow by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association and is a Fellow in the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. In his semi-retired status, he is becoming increasingly involved in advancing drug policy reform. In this capacity, he is President of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation and is on the Drug Policy Alliance’s Marijuana Justice Coalition.
Bryon Adinoff, MD is an addiction psychiatrist and academician. Dr. Adinoff is presently a Clinical Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He retired in 2018 as the Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and as a psychiatrist for 30 years with the Department of Veterans Affairs, where he served as the director of substance use disorder treatment programs at both the Charleston, SC and Dallas, TX VA Medical Centers. Dr. Adinoff obtained his medical training at Michigan State University, completed his residency in psychiatry at Tulane University, and obtained a fellowship in the Laboratory of Clinical Studies at the National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Adinoff’s laboratory focused on using a variety of pharmacologic, cognitive, and behavioral probes to explore the neural and endocrine disruptions that occur in cocaine and alcohol use disorders and, more recently, compulsive tanning. Dr. Adinoff has published more than 200 articles, reviews, and book chapters on the biology and treatment of addiction and he is the Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Dr. Adinoff’s research has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and Department of Veterans Affairs. He has been recognized as a Distinguished Fellow by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association and is a Fellow in the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. In his semi-retired status, he is becoming increasingly involved in advancing drug policy reform. In this capacity, he is President of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation and is on the Drug Policy Alliance’s Marijuana Justice Coalition.