Dr. Samuel Acuff is a Research Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Recovery Research Institute. Dr. Acuff completed his doctoral training in clinical psychology in the psychology department at the University of Memphis, his clinical psychology internship at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, and his postdoctoral fellowship in the RRI. His research attempts to leverage technology and ongoing public health trends to reduce the burdens and harms of substance use disorder. His work is informed by behavioral economics and attempts to illuminate environmental and contextual influences on the development of and recovery from substance use disorders, with a particular focus on social factors. Dr. Acuff is currently funded by the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.