Brian Hurley is an addiction physician and the Medical Director of the Bureau of Substance Abuse Prevention and Control in the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. He is the Immediate Past President of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Brian was the program lead for LA County’s first-ever Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration’s Harm Reduction grant award and is currently the program lead for LA County’s Centers for Disease Control Overdose to Action Local grant award. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at UCLA and previously worked at LA County’s Department of Mental Health and LA County’s Department of Health Services. He is a volunteer assistant clinical professor of addiction medicine at the UCLA Department of Family Medicine.