Dr. Toufiq completed his specialization degree in psychiatry at the Rabat Faculty of Medicine in 1992. He was granted fellowships in Psychiatry and addiction medicine in France then opted for a sub-specialization in substance use and applied-epidemiology in 1993.
Dr. Toufiq was selected as a NIDA research fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and studied there in 1994 and 1995. He became an Associate Professor in Psychiatry in 1997 and contributed to the creation of the first center for drug abuse treatment in 1999. As a full professor of Psychiatry, he took over as the Director of the University Psychiatric Hospital in Salé in 2005.
He holds the position of the Moroccan Representative at the MedNET Network of the Pompidou Group (since 2006) and was appointed the Permanent Correspondent for Morocco at the Pompidou Group (the Council of Europe). He co-founded the Middle East and North Africa Harm Reduction Association (MENHARA). In 2011, Dr. Toufiq was nominated as the Director of the newly created National Observatory on Drugs and Addictions. He served as expert and consultant for many organizations such as WHO, UNODC, African Union, and Council of Europe. In 2015, he was elected by the ECOSC as a member of the UN International Narcotics Control Board in Vienna for which he was re-elected for a second five-year mandate in 2020.
He chairs and participates in many committees and commissions, nationally and internationally in the filed of substance use and also served as the Minister of Health advisor for mental health and drug use issues in the early 2000. He teaches at the University of Rabat Faculty of Medicine and is the founder of the University Diploma on Addictology at the University of Rabat. He gives lectures and contributes to teaching activities in many European and African countries in the area of substance use.
