Addictions & Recovery: Self-Help for Addicts, Families, Friends - Paperback

by Deirdre Boyd (Author)

Addiction and recovery: Your questions answered. How to recover from addiction/ dependencies, including help for families. By the CEO of the Addiction Recovery Foundation and editor of Addiction Today journal.

Author Biography

Deirdre Boyd is CEO of the Addiction Recovery Foundation, editor of Addiction Today - the only journal in the UK showing how to recover from addiction/dependency, and cofounder/organiser of the UK/European Symposia on Addictive Disorders, the largest addiction-recovery event in Europe. Her first version of this book sold out in seven languages. She also wrote mental-health charity Mind's booklet on Understanding Addiction/Dependency. She is a member of the Centre for Policy Studies' Prisons and Addictions think-tank, of the Recovery Academy, of the Recovery Group UK and of the UK Recovery Foundation. She participated in the dti's Office of Science & Technology project on Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs, forecasting the next two decades. 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. She received a 2010 Pillar Of The Community award at Sierra Tucson's first UK awards ceremony.