MIKE ASHTON

Mike Ashton is editor of Drug and Alcohol Findings, a collaborative project involving the National Addiction Centre, DrugScope and Alcohol Concern. It produced the world’s only magazine devoted to evaluations of the effectiveness of alcohol and drug interventions and now offers a similar service from its website.

He will be presenting at UKESAD on  how to interpret the findings of published research - and variations on how the researchers themselves could have interpreted the findings differently.

Previously he produced the first two Annual Reports on the State of the Drugs Problem in the European Union for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction and Juice, a magazine for drug users in the UK.

His background was 20 years at the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence, then the UK’s information service on the misuse of drugs, where he was became co-responsible for publications and founded Druglink, the Institute’s ‘trade’ magazine for the UK drugs field. He edited this for 10 years until leaving the Institute in 1995. Until standing down in 2003, he also chaired (and remains a board member for) T3E UK, a charity especially concerned with race and drugs issues on which it provides training, research and consultancy.