In this episode, Cate hears from Francis Lickerish about addiction. He speaks about his work helping the families of addicts with learning how to set boundaries and reclaiming their lives.

Francis is a respected professional with 30 years’ experience working in the fields of adult addiction and family services and has run family programmes for notable treatment centres across the UK. He has also worked globally, establishing family programmes in the Middle East, Pakistan, and South Africa. He runs workshops in schools and colleges on the nature of addiction and how it impacts on, and can be managed in, such systems. He sees addiction as a systemic condition that has its roots in society and history.

He is also a well-known composer and guitarist and believes that it is these skills that allow him to see beneath the surface of things and work in an organic and all-encompassing way.

Francis is currently working on a PhD and is writing a book on the historical and social context of addiction.

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