Dr. B (Banimahd) Started his long career as an academic emergency medicine physician. He initially practiced as a clinical professor and director of clinical research at UCLA/Kern Medical Center. He eventually made a lateral move to UC Irvine medical center as an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine, where he continued to practice and train new physicians, undergraduates, and other health students. He eventually left academic medicine and went into private and non-profit practice of addiction medicine. In that space, he has been involved with methadone clinics, detoxes, and intensive outpatient programs. He made his mark in the field as a harm reduction advocate, medication assisted treatment, long term benzo tapers, and an all-around patient advocate long before any of these concepts were fashionable to promote. He has been called a “magician” by many patients in his ability to titrate and manage medications as well as handle complex polypharmacy and polysubstance abuse cases.