Questions & Answers: Alistair Sinclair & Tim Leighton
Posted on 28-07-2015
in: Policy, Strategy And Research
 Alistair Sinclair and Tim Leighton hold a question and answer session at the New Directions 2015 conference.

 

NDSAG 2015

Location: London, England

In the 1970's the New Directions group took on the concept of "Alcoholism". Their pioneering critiques of the "disease model" and its successors have informed developments in alcohol treatment for nearly 50 years.In 2015 New Directions explores "Recovery". Against a background of vested interests scrabbling to claim it for themselves, we will examine the origins…

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