Chip Somers

Biographical Information
"Career 1997-present: founder and chief executive, Focus 12; 1996-97: addiction manager, the Priory hospital group, Jersey; 1994-96: addiction treatment manager, Dukes Priory hospital, Chelmsford, also led a family support group, London borough of Richmond upon Thames; 1987-94: co-manager, Thurston House, residential unit for the charity, Action on Addiction; 1986-87: trained and worked as an addictions counsellor, Clouds House, Wiltshire.

"Public life Member, the government's rehabilitation expert panel; 2007-11: trustee of the European Association for Treatment of Addiction; 2007: Suffolk county citizen award."