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.