Jorge Villatoro studied for his Ph.D. at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2002. For the past 35 years, he has worked at the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente on different national studies about drug consumption and mental health. He has collaborated with WHO and PAHO. He has been funded nationwide and internationally for many of his projects. Additionally, he is part of several editorial committees, and he has published many scientific articles and books. Moreover, he is a member of the International Scientific Network from the UNODC, REDLAC (Latin-American and Caribbean Network of Researchers in Addictions), and advisor of the Observatory of Drugs of the Americas. Nowadays, he has been developing several preventive programs about drug use and mental health problems.