He completed an emergency medicine research fellowship at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He has served 3 years as a drug expert at Drug Control Headquarters, an organization in affiliation with presidency, and at the same time has been national consultant for United Nations Office for drugs and crime (UNODC) located in Tehran, Iran and national instructor for harm reduction in drug abuse. He is a member of American society of addiction medicine. He has many publications in peer-reviewed journals and 3 books about substance abuse and addictive synthetic drugs.