Doug Cameron on accomodating alcohol use within communities
Posted on 24-02-2013
in: Events And Seminars

Doug Cameron explains how we need a range of resources to make alcohol use within a community safe and to provide additional services for individuals when problems occur.

Doug Cameron

Founding member of NDSAG

Location: UK

Doug Cameron is a psychiatrist, a Glasgow graduate in medicine who undertook his postgraduate training at the Crichton Royal, Dumfries where he and Mary Spence ran the first outpatient controlled drinking group in Britain. He was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist with special interest in alcohol problems in Leicestershire in 1976, where he developed the first comprehensive…

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