On 24 January 2023, Kieran Moriarty interviewed Sir Ian Gilmore for the Addiction Lives series. Here they talk about Sir Ian’s work with successive governments on health policy and why he resigned ‘rather publicly’ as co-chair of a Public Healt

Viv Evans

Mar 30th, 2023 42m 10s

On 18 January 2023, Virginia Berridge interviewed Viv Evans, Chief Executive of Afdam, for the Addiction Lives series. Here they talk about family drug and alcohol courts, workforce development via the Skills Consortium, and how Viv helped brin

Robin Davidson

Mar 30th, 2023 1h 14m

On 15 November 2022, Duncan Raistrick interviewed consultant clinical psychologist Robin Davidson for the Addiction Lives series. Here they talk about Robin’s first introductions to transformative change and recovery through his father’s work,

Professor Moira Plant

Jun 22nd, 2021 48m 55s

This interview comes from the series Addiction Lives, a print and online collaboration between the journal Addiction and the Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA) which is edited by Professor Virginia Berridge with support from Jean O’Reilly

Professor Betsy Thom

Apr 19th, 2021 1h 5m

Harry Shapiro

Feb 16th, 2021 1h 35m

In this episode Harry Shapiro talks about his time working in addiction. From the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence (ISDD) in 1979 to DrugScope and DrugWise. Harry also talks about how addiction treatment and policies have changed over

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