Invited Speakers



2009

David Best , Reader in Criminal Justice, University of the West of Scotland, Scotland

Alex Baldacchino , Snr. Clinical Lecturer and Consultant Psychiatrist in Addiction , University of the Dundee

Brian Kidd , Snr. Clinical Lecturer and Consultant Psychiatrist in Addiction , University of the Dundee

Mark Gilman, NW Regional Manager, National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, England & Wales;

Wendy Dawson , Chief Executive , Ley Community, England;

 

2008

Netta McIver, Chief Executive, ; former Assistant Director of Social Work, Western Isles, Scotland; and former Principal Officer Addictions/HIV, Strathclyde Region, Scotland.

Sophia Young, Turning Point Scotland

Tracy Lundie, Turning Point Scotland

Neil McKeganey, Professor of Drug Misuse Research; Director, Centre for Drug Misuse Research; and author of Beating the Dragon.

George De Leon, Former Director, Center for Therapeutic Community Research, New York ; Former Director of Research, Phoenix House, New York ; and author/editor of The Therapeutic Community: theory, model and method and Community as Method.

Peter McCann, (to be confirmed) Director, Castle Craig Hospital; Board Member, International Council of Alcohol and Addictions; former Director, Clouds House.

Betsy Thom, Head of Social Policy Research Centre, Middlesex University ; Reader in Drug and Alcohol Studies; and editor of Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy.

Jane Fountain, Professor of Substance Use Research and Lead Researcher, Centre for Ethnicity and Health, University of Central Lancashire.

Tim McSweeney
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Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research and author of The quasi-compulsory treatment of drug-dependent offenders in Europe. Final National Report – England.

Alex Stevens, Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute of Social Services, University of Kent; lead researcher, QCT Europe project on treatment for drug dependent offenders; and former coordinator of the European Network of Drug and HIV/AIDS Services in Prisons.

Griffith Edwards, Assistant Commissioning Editor, Addiction; former Director and founder of the National Addiction Centre, London ; former Editor-in-Chief, Addiction; and author of Alcohol: the world's favourite drug.

Rowdy Yates & Margaret Malloch, Facilitators of the Pathways to Recovery seminar series. Prospective editors of Pathways to Recovery – based upon the seminar series.