 He has worked also at the University of Tampere and at various academic and government research institutes.In 1979 he had a research scholarship at the Addiction Research Foundation in Toronto, Ontario.Until retirement (2010) Peltoniemi was the communications director of the A-Clinic Foundation, a Finnish addiction treatment organisation, as well as Editor-in-chief of the Finnish journal on addictions, "Tiimi", and of a Finnish web and mobile portal on addictions, "AddictionLink".