Amine Benyamina

Amine Benyamina is an addictologist psychiatrist at University Hospital Paul Brousse in Villejuif and a university professor at Paris Saclay Faculty of Medicine. He is head of the Department of Psychiatry and Addictology at Paul Brousse Hospital, head of the Psycomadd research unit and responsible for a number of national and international university diplomas. He is also president of Fédération Française d'Addictologie (FFA), president of the addictology section of CNU (Collège National Universitaire) and president of Addict Aide.

He is editor-in-chief of the journal Alcoologie et Addictologie and a director of Société Française d'Alcoologie (SFA) and Association Française de Psychiatrie Biologique et Neuropsychopharmacologie (AFPBN). He has also written several reports for the government and over 140 peer-reviewed scientific articles on therapeutics, biomarkers and psychiatric and addictive co-morbidities. The author of numerous academic and educational books, he has coordinated several collective works, as well as being the author of books for the general public on addiction issues, particularly cannabis and alcohol.

Finally, he is the founder of the Albatros congress, an international addictology congress held every year in Paris.