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, 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.