Hugo González Cantú is a psychiatrist with over 28 years of experience working in the field of disorders due to substance use, particularly in dual diagnosis. He has collaborated on training regarding substance use, its impact on mental health, and its treatment across a range of courses and graduate and specialty programs. He was coordinator of the Center for Alcoholics and their Families and of the Addictions Clinic at the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz. In the Department of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) he is professor of the course on addictions for psychiatry residents from various clinical placements and of the postgraduate course on addictions management. Currently, he is the Head of Services for the National Commission on Mental Health and Addictions of the Government of Mexico.