Mikhail Zobin graduated from the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg in 1980, after which he did a clinical residency in psychiatry and specialized in both addiction medicine and psychotherapy at the Russian Academy of Postgraduate Education. The author of more than fifty publications in scientific journals, the author of the practical guide for doctors "Therapeutic Interventions in Addictology", co-author of the Guide to Addictology and the monograph "Addictive Desire", Board Member of the Eurasian Professional Association of Addictive Medicine.