FEAD - Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs

Dr David Best is an associate professor of addiction studies at Monash University and Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre and a recovery advocate in Australia and the UK
He was Reader in Criminal Justice at the University of Western Scotland. He was also a senior lecturer in addictions in the department of psychiatry at Birmingham University, and worked for Birmingham DAT. He qualified with a first class honours in psychology and philosophy, a Masters with distinction in criminology and PhD in addiction psychology. He spent ten years working in research at the National Addiction Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, working on a range of studies of drug and alcohol treatment, preventing drug-related deaths and assessing the drug-crime relationship.

David is a regular and key contributor to discussions on policy and practice, for example see Different Roads. (David Best, Jessica Loaring, Safeena Ghufran and Ed Day) 19 May 2008 drinkanddrugsnews.

Bob Campbell has been working in the drugs field since the 1970's. In 1970 he was part of a co-operative in Brighton which set up an early example of a multi disciplinary street agency which included working with drug users. Throughout the late 70's and early 80's he worked at the Lifeline Project in Manchester specialising in assessing and preparing clients for admission into Therapeutic Community (TC) and other residential rehabilitation programmes. He has worked at Phoenix Futures since 1984 when he was engaged to bring his first hand experience of  being a member of a TC to the initial development of a concept based TC for drug users in Sheffield. Bob is Chair of Sheffield Drug and Alcohol Reference Group and is a member of the European Federation of Therapeutic Communities where he represents Phoenix Futures. 

UK Drug Policy Commission Seminar
Beyond containment: Making a real impact on drug markets

Speakers:

Jon Caulkins: A Harm Reduction approach to enforcement

Nicola Singleton: Impact on harms via drug-related law enforcement

Ben Lynam: Introductions

Annette Dale-Perera was Director of Quality at the National Treatment Agency (NTA) between 2001 and 2009, and managed the Quality Directorate at the NTA 

Her work included Improvement Reviews, national policy and guidance documents and research briefings; development of Treatment Outcomes Profile or TOP) and managing the update to the Clinical Guidelines for drug dependence and working in partnership on the dissemination and implementation of the NICE guidelines and the Clinical Guidelines Update.

Annette has authored over 60 research and policy publications on drug related topics, including: developing and promoting the NTA Treatment Effectiveness Strategy (2005), Models of Care documents (for Drug and Alcohol Misusers 2001, 2006, 2006) and QuADS (1999).

Professor Robin Davidson has been a Consultant Clinical Psychologist for more years than he cares to remember. He worked in the Leeds Addiction Service before moving to Northern Ireland as Head of Clinical Psychology for the Northern Health Board. He has published widely in the field of alcohol dependence, motivation and health psychology and has editorial responsibilities for a number of addiction journals.

He left the NHS in early 2008 but continues as Hon. Lecturer in the University of Ulster and the Faculty of Medicine at Queens. He is joint Chairman of GAIN ( the Northern Ireland equivalent of NICE ) and has recently been appointed as Chairman of the Alcohol Education and Research Council