David Best on de-medicalising, de-professionalising and de-stigmatising
Posted on 12-08-2009
in: Future / Public Service Reform

David suggests that the future requires that we have to be much more critical about our roles and positions regarding substance misuse. David suggests that our knowledge so far will have a narrow meaning in the future.He suggests what predicts long term recovery and outcomes is structural rather than based on what we do as professionals.

David Best

Associate Professor and Recovery Advocate

Location: Melbourne, Australia and UK

Dr David Best is an associate professor of addiction studies at Monash University and Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre and a recovery advocate in Australia and the UK. He was Reader in Criminal Justice at the University of Western Scotland. He was also a senior lecturer in addictions in the department of psychiatry at…

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