Deirdre Boyd

Biographical Information
"Deirdre Boyd is CEO of the Addiction Recovery Foundation, cofounder/organiser of the UK/European Symposia on Addictive Disorders and cofounder of the Unity Group. She is editor of Addiction Today and author of Addictions: Your Questions Answered, printed in seven languages, as well as mental-health charity Mind's booklet Understanding Addictions/ Dependencies. She participated in focus roups for the dti Office of Science & Technology's Foresight project on Brain Science, Addiction & Drugs - which looked to the future 25 years from now. She was a trustee of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics and is a member of the Centre for Policy Studies' Prisons and Addictions unit. In 2006, ICAA awarded her the Dr Vincent Bakeman memorial award for Outstanding Community Service."