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ROLANDE ANDERSON
... is author of Living with a problem drinker: Your survival guide and has worked in the field of addiction since 1978. He has been national alcohol project director for the Irish College of GPs since 2000 and was a founding member of the Irish Association of Alcohol and Addiction Counsellors. He was assistant director, of the alcohol/chemical dependence programme in St Patrick’s Hospital Dublin, then assistant director at the Rutland Centre. He has been in private counselling practice since 1999. He is also a full member of the Irish Association of Social Workers.
PROFESSOR LARRY ASHLEY EDS, LADC, CPGC
... is associate professor in residence-Department of Counsellor Education, director-Problem Gambling Treatment Programme, and undergraduate coordinator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is clinical assistant professor at the Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Nevada School of Medicine – and, of course, an addictions specialist.
JOY BARLOW
... is head of Strada, the Scottish Training on Drugs and Alcohol. It is the “leading national workforce development organisation supporting those working with and affected by drug and alcohol misuse” and works to improve the competence of staff so that local interventions aid the recovery of those affected by substance misuse.
DAVID BEST
... is Reader in Criminal Justice at the University of the West of Scotland and chair of the Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium. Before that, he was senior lecturer in addictions at Birmingham University’s Department of Psychiatry, and research & development lead for Birmingham Drug and Alcohol Action Team. He spent 10 years in research at the National Addiction Centre and worked with the former PM’s Delivery Unit.
FRANCES BLACK
... Award winner singer from Ireland, Frances has spoken openly about her own recovery from addiction. After finding recovery, she graduated as an addiction counsellor, then then training in the Rutland Centre Dublin. A few years ago, Frances told her story on the Late Late chat show and was overwhelmed with the response from family members, who inspired her to set up The Rise Foundation in 2008 to "support families who have loved ones in addiction, to reduce addiction related harm and to combat the shame and stigma associated with addiction”. She was awarded Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 and the Rise Foundation won a Vodafone World of Difference award 2010.
JAMES BROKENSHIRE MP (tbc)
... is the minister for crime prevention at the Home Office where his responsibility for government policies includes antisocial behaviour, drugs and alcohol and violent crime. He was shadow Home Affairs minister and served as a member of the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee. Before parliament, he was a partner at a large international law firm.
DEIRDRE BOYD
... is cofounder/organiser of Ukesad and the Unity Group, and CEO of the Addiction Recovery Foundation. She is editor of Addiction Today, and author of Addiction & Recovery: Self-help for families, friends, addicts, as well as mental-health charity Mind’s booklet Understanding addiction/dependency. She is a member of the Centre for Policy Studies’ Prisons and Addictions think-tank, and a founder-member the Recovery Academy and of the Recovery Group. She was a trustee of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics UK. In 2006, ICAA awarded her the Dr Vincent Bakeman memorial award for Outstanding Community Service; in 2010 she received a Sierra Tucson Pillar of the Community award.
TOM BRUCE accreditation
... is a therapist at Castle Craig Hospital and has been responsible for introducing the ICADC – International Certified Alcohol and Drug Counsellor – 'gold standard' accreditation to the UK.
DAVID BURROWES MP
... is parliamentary private secretary to the minister responsible for government policy, Oliver Letwin, supporting him particularly in relation to drugs and alcohol treatment and policy reform. David helped to lead the Conservative Party’s social justice policy review in 2007 concerning drug and alcohol addictions, which led to the groundbreaking Breakthrough Britain report which has informed government policy.
PATRICK CARNES
... is author of Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction, Contrary to Love: Helping the Sexual Addict, The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships, Open Hearts, Facing the Shadow, In the Shadows of the Net, Clinical Management of Sex Addiction and Sexual Anorexia. He is co-editor of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity: the Journal of Treatment and Prevention, the National Council of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity’s journal. He is executive director of the Gentle Path programme at Pine Grove Behavioral Center in Mississippi. He also pioneered the Certified Sex Addiction Therapist programme.
JUDY CRANE
... is founder and executive director of The Refuge-A Healing Place, founded in 2003 to begin where most other treatment modalities end, being specifically focused on trauma resolution/addiction/PTSD. She has over two decades’ experience working in residential and outpatient settings. She earned her BA at Rutgers, MA from NY Institute of Technology and is a certified addiction professional, certified sex addiction therapist, certified hypnotist, EMDR and a specialist for healing trauma and PTSD.
LUCY DEAN
... is senior research officer at Rapt, the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners’ trust.
ED DIEHL
... is president/CEO of Seabrook House, the largest private non-profit chemical dependency treatment organisation in southern New Jersey. He was given the 2009 ACATA Administrator of the Year award at the Naatp National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers leadership conference. Ed began his career in 1976 with the establishment of a social detoxification programme for indigents; in 1977, he joined Seabrook House, and has developed outreach programmes, operations manuals and projects with accreditation authorities. He was chair of NAATP, until 2009. Ed has been in full recovery from chemical dependency for over 35 years.
REBECCA FLOOD MHS, LCDC, NCACII, BRI II
... is president of the Association of Intervention Specialists and CEO of New Directions for Women, which treats women individually and with dependent children. With over 30 years’ experience in healthcare, Becky has expertise in programme development, implementation and evaluation. She was previously vice president of treatment services for Seabrook House in New Jersey.
PHILIP FOX
... is an actor, director, experienced facilitator and founder of the Outside Edge Theatre company which brings addiction-related issues to the public stage as well as customising performances for addiction-treatment centres and their recovering clients. He is photographed here with some of his cast.
Dr PARDEEP GREWAL BSc, MBBs, MSc, MRCPsych
... is a consultant psychiatrist/clinical lead at Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and clinical teacher at the Royal Free and University College London Medical School. He has many years’ experience of teaching and clinical practice in addictions. He developed and now leads a dual diagnosis service in north London. He has special interests in co-occurring disorders, managing high-risk clients and policy development. He is a director of Time Healthcare, a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, British Medical Association and UK Register of Expert Witnesses..
ANDREW GRIFFITHS MP
... is secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Drugs Misuse Group and was previously chief of staff to the chairman of the Conservative Party, Eric Pickles MP. Before entering politics, he worked for his family-run engineering business in the West Midlands. He has always been active in the local community, and was a school governor.
STEVE HAMER OBE FRSA
... is CEO of Compass harm-reduction services. First a teacher, Steve entered the social care field in 1977, working with homeless people in London before joining Cranstoun, a residential programme for drug misusers in 1979. In 1983, he opened the Parole Release Scheme, the UK’s first dedicated resettlement service for drug-using prisoners. Since joining Compass in 1986 as its first employee, Steve guided the organisation to become one of the UK’s leading drug-treatment providers. He has a MA in Social Policy. In 2005, Steve was awarded an OBE in the Queen´s Birthday Honours.
MICHAEL HORNSTEIN
... is executive director of Alina Lodge – having been a patient there in 1981, after which he has enjoyed continual sobriety. He was on the Little Hill Foundation board of trustees for over 20 years and served as president of the board twice. He worked for 25 years for the Miami Dade school system, then from 1985-2000 was a part time group therapist for the Broward County Commission on Alcoholism, a DUI programme.
PROFESSOR KEITH HUMPHREYS
... was senior policy adviser to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) as it drafted its 2010 drug strategy, and has returned to his professorship (research) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford School of Medicine. He has a research paper in press on payment by result research. He had also been a member of the White House Commission on Drug Free Communities. He was awarded an honorary Professorship of Psychiatry at Kings College, London.
GAIL JONES
... is director of research and development at Rapt, the
Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners trust. She has a Msc in health psychology and a post-graduate diploma in counselling. She was involved in the development of the Carat service in England and oversaw a 12-step treatment programme for young offenders at Aylesbury Youth Offenders Institution.
TOM KIRKWOOD
... is CEO of TTP/Trust the Process. He has a diverse business background mainly in developing growth strategies for new companies. With an MBA from Ashridge Management College, Tom’s role is to develop government relationships and encourage adoption of the TTP Recovery Community model. He has been instrumental in TTP growing from a new business entrant to the addiction treatment field in 2006 to now having over 17 services throughout the UK with over 200 beds.
THERESA SLAYTON-KOGER LCSW, LMHC, MAC
... has dedicated her professional career of 25 years working with children and families suffering from trauma, grief and addictions. She has incorporated her therapy dogs (Shelly is pictured left) in assisting clients in recovery from addiction for the past 15 years. In her private practice, Theresa completes substance abuse assessments for the Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program (JLAP), Physician’s Referral Program, Division of Family and Children and the Court systems. She is a certified alcohol/drug abuse counsellor, certified divorce and domestic violence mediator, licensed clinical social worker, licensed mental health counsellor.
Dr BARBARA KRANTZ DO MS-nuclear medicine
... is CEO and medical director of research at Hanley Center. She is an expert on the prescription pain medication epidemic, and the medical science behind the disease of addiction. Dr Krantz leads a collaborative study with Scripps Florida and the University of Miami to identify effective and innovative treatment therapies and relapse triggers. She also is an advocate of SPECT brain scanning to help more effectively diagnose and treat the disease of addiction.
JACK KUO
... works as a consulting psychiatrist for Promises Treatment Centers in Malibu and as a staff psychiatrist at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga. He began working in the field of addictions as an outreach counsellor for homeless teenagers in Waikiki, then completed his psychiatric residency and addictions psychiatry fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
ALEXANDRE LAUDET PhD
... is one of the world’s leading recovery researchers and director of the Recovery Research Center at the Institute for Research, Education & Training in Addictions, having previously been director of the Center for the Study of Addictions and Recovery at the National Development and Research Institutes, New York. She also provides consultancy to governments and community-based agencies on creating recovery. A social psychologist, her main goals are to build the science of recovery and to help translate findings into services and policy that create opportunities for long-term recovery and improved quality of life for people with substance problems.
ROKELLE LERNER
... is one of the most sought-after speakers and trainers on relationships, women’s issues and addicted family systems. Awards for her work include Esquire’s “Top 100 Women in the US Who Are Changing the Nation”. Rokelle is cofounder of Children Are People, used in thousands of US schools. She has been a guest on TV shows such as Oprah, Good Morning America and CBS Morning News, and authored the bestselling books, Living in the Comfort Zone: The Gift of Boundaries in Relationships, Affirmations for Adult Children of Alcoholism, Affirmations for the Inner Child and Narcissists and Their Relationships. She facilitates the InnerPath Retreats for Cottonwood de Tucson in Arizona.
JOHN LEVINE
... has been creating original music and playing piano since he was six. He graduated as a composer from Sydney University Australia and worked with bands like INXS and Midnight Oil as well as composing jingles for Saatchi and Saatchi and Coca-Cola. To pursue his belief in meditation and the healing properties of music, he left the mainstream and developed ‘alphamusic’. Over 200,000 copies of his alphamusic CDs including Silence of Peace have been sold – and calmed audiences at the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium and Live Earth concerts.
ANTHONY MASSOURAS
... is founder of Mimosa Healthcare, which offers acute and sub-acute care services and is the UK premier provider of training in its field. It includes Linwood residential treatment services for alcohol dependence. He is chairman of the Addiction Recovery Foundation charity, publisher of Addiction Today and organiser of Ukesad. He is also a member of the government’s Ambassador Apprenticeship Network and a Management Committee member of the Adult Learning & Skills Council.
IAN LYONS LMSW
... is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with Breathing Space Thailand, having moved there from New York, where he was a researcher and clinician at Stony Brook University and John T Mather Memorial Hospital, as well as in private practice. He has extensive experience in treating substance abuse and co-occurring disorders, in inpatient and outpatient settings. Ian cofounded and served as lead therapist at the first fully peer run clinic in the US, certified by Samhsa. The programme used the power of shared experience alongside evidence-based clinical interventions.
Rt Hon LORD MANCROFT
... is chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Drugs Misuse Group. He was a cofounder of the Addiction Recovery Foundation and its chairman for 18 years, continuing the link in his current role as patron. London’s Evening Standard newspaper described him as “the most knowledgeable parliamentarian on the topic of drugs”.
PIA MELLODY
... is senior clinical adviser for The Meadows and clinical consultant for Mellody House and Dakota. She is a preeminent authority, lecturer and educator in the fields of addictions and relationships. Her work in codependence, boundaries and the effects of childhood trauma on emotional development has profoundly influenced the treatment of addictions and issues around forming and maintaining relationships. She is the author of books such as Facing Codependence, Facing Love Addiction and The Intimacy Factor.
ANNE MILTON MP (tbc)
... is parliamentary undersecretary of state at the Department of Health and minister for Public Health. She worked for the NHS for 25 years, becoming involved in politics in the early 1990s. Before being elected as MP for Guildford, she was a borough councillor for five years in Surrey, was Conservative group leader and vice chair of the Conservative Medical Society. She was appointed to the Health Select Committee in 2005 and shadow minister for Health in 2007.
DAVE MULVANEY
... is part of the senior management team at the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners' trust (Rapt). He trained as an addictions counsellor with Clouds and King’s College University London to post-graduate level. He has over 15 years’ experience of frontline service delivery, development, management and training, starting as a social-work team manager at a drug-crisis intervention centre serving 33 London boroughs, then developing services for BME crack users, and evidence- and outcome-based relapse prevention & aftercare programmes. He is a trustee of the Addiction Recovery Foundation charity, which organises UKESAD.
NOREEN OLIVER MBE
... is founder and CEO of BAC O’Connor treatment centres and chair of the Recovery Group UK. The Centre for Social Justice, a group established by Department of Work & Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, gave her a Lifetime Achievement award in 2010.
Sir NIELS OLSEN
... is, with his brother Jorgen, a danish rock/pop music duo who have performed with the Kinks, among others. They have released 12 albums, the latest with Cliff Richard. They won the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest 2000 with Fly on the Wings of Love. Niels has also qualified as a psychotherapist and is partnering Ukesad to stage a scandinavian symposium.
KARRIM RAHMAN BA(hons) DTC, CRW, LCSP(phys), APBMD, CRZ
... is a remedial therapist, using therapeutic massage and manipulation, reflexology, Tui Na, counselling and relaxation techniques, including for sports/joint injuries.
He first qualified in law and his early career was in local government, then social work. He qualified in remedial massage in 1993; this involves deep-tissue techniques to assist the client’s body to return to normal functioning. Deep-seated tension can be released, deposits and scar tissue broken down, and nerves freed, clearing pain.
JOHN SCHWARZLOSE MS MBA
... is the president/ chief executive officer of the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California. He was hired by Mrs Betty Ford in 1982 in a national search for the founding director of her renowned treatment centre and is the only CEO in the its 29-year history. John is a charter fellow in the American College of Addiction Treatment Administrators. He has appeared numerous times in front of the US Congress and national TV news shows. He began as an alcohol/drug counsellor 40 years ago and is a tireless advocate for alcoholics, addicts, and their loved ones.
KEN SEELEY BRI-II, RAS, CNDAI
... is best known for his starring role in A&E TV’s popular Interventions series. He is a board-registered interventionist, registered addiction specialist and certified national drug & alcohol interventionist. Founder and CEO of Intervention 911, Ken has been involved in the recovery community for over 17 years; he has been clean and sober since 1989. His success rate as an interventionist means he is often asked to provide drug intervention training for addiction and mental health professionals. He also authored Face It and Fix It, based on his toughest interventions.
JIM SMITH
... "in the last ten years i’ve travelled to many rehabs in the UK,Nashville and South Africa.My presentation is a mixture of stories from my recovery (and addressing recovery issues) and songs that are meaningful and relevant.What amazes me about this theraputic intervention is how quickly it acts as a catalyst to access emotion in clients who previously have been frozen.
JOHN SOUTHWORTH CADC
... has worked in the field of substance abuse and mental health for over 40 years. After receiving his CADC in 1984 from Naadac and IC&RC, he provided inpatient and outpatient counselling for groups and individuals, then interventions – he is arguably the world’s most successful interventionist. In 1993, John became programme coordinator for the Physician Recovery Network in Idaho; in 1996, he became its programme coordinator for recovering nurses. He then founded Southworth Associates which implements programmes for professional bodies such as the Lawyers Assistance Program and Program for Recovering Dental Professionals.
MIKE TRACE
... is CEO of Rapt, the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners’ trust. Before leaving the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2003, he was director of performance at the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, and was the deputy UK ‘drug czar’ 1997-2001. For two years, he was chair of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
MICHAEL WEINER PHD, CAP
... has been the director for research & education at Seaside Palm Beach/Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches since 1999. He received his PhD in psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1970. He has taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr Weiner has published in professional journals and has regularly presented at professional conferences.
JEFF WILBEE CAE international accreditation
... is immediate past president of IC&RC, the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium. With over 30 years’ experience, he is responsible for the worldwide development of IC&RC professional accreditation.
MATTHEW WOLF
... oversees admissions, marketing, community relations, business development, medical records, support services and more as vice president of business operations at Seabrook House. In his 21+ years with the organisation, Matt has served as a helpline counsellor, director of admissions and director of business development. In 2009, Matt celebrated 25 years in recovery from chemical dependency.
