HUSEYIN DJEMIL, MCMI

Huseyin Djemil is a member of the Chartered Management Institute and currently a freelance consultant working in the UK substance-misuse field.

He is a member of the Centre for Policy Studies, Prisons and Addictions Forum, and author of Inside out: how to get drugs out of prisons.

He has worked in the drugs field since 1993 in a variety of roles from arrest referral worker, service manager, Drug-Alcohol Action Team coordinator and commissioner, London area drug strategy coordinator for HM Prison Service, head of drug treatment policy for prisons in England and Wales, NOMS National Offender Management Service, Ministry of Justice.

Huseyin underwent residential rehabilitation for class A drug use between 1986 and 1988. He is a passionate advocate of drug treatment that allows drug users to move out of addiction and achieve their full potential and place in society.