Lord Mancroft cofounded the Addiction Recovery Foundation and served the charity as chairman for 18 years. He was then elected to become its first Patron. The Evening Standard newspaper described him as "the most knowledgeable parliamentarian on the subject of drugs".
Johan Sorensen was clinical director for the Nour al Shorouk Centers in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. Before that, he was director/founder/clinical director/marketing director of some of the best known residential facilities in the UK, including Life Works and Priory Farm Place. He now provides consultancy services and interventions in Europe and the Middle East. He travels and networks internationally in a quest to find the newest and most effective approaches for any given population. His passion is the provision of comprehensive and top quality care using innovative and client centred approaches. As a result of living in different countries and speaking a variety of languages Johan is always looking for new challenges to push the field forward, challenge conventional wisdom and improve on what exists.
Dave Mulvaney is part of the senior management team at the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners trust (Rapt). He trained as an addictions counsellor with Clouds and King's College University in London to post-graduate level. He has over 15 years' experience of frontline service delivery, development, management and training, starting as a social-work team manager at a drug-crisis intervention centre serving 33 London boroughs. He developed services for BME crack users, then managed the Sharp 12-step day programme, where he built an evidence- and outcome-based relapse prevention & aftercare programme. He was elected recently to the board of trustees of the Addiction Recovery Foundation, and is on its UKESAD conference committee.
Anthony Massouras is chairman of ARF, succeeding Lord Mancroft, and sits on its UKESAD conference committee. He is founder and owner of the Mimosa Healthcare Group, which offers acute and sub-acute care services, and is the fastest growing provider of residential treatment services for alcohol dependence in the UK. The group has a strong reputation for employee training programmes and is recognised as the premier provider of training in its field in the UK. He is also a member of UK government’s Ambassador Apprenticeship Network (AAN), a body promoting work-placed apprenticeships as well as a non-executive member of the Management Committee of the Adult Learning & Skills Council (LSC) a government agency that promotes and develops adult work-based training.
The Hon David Bernstein is a trustee of the Addiction Recovery Foundation, the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners trust, and Prisoners Abroad.
Rick Ohrstrom is chairman of C4 Recovery Solutions, which owns and organises the largest addiction conference in the US: the Cape Cod Symposium on Addicive Disorders, the 'sister' symposium to the UK/European Symposium on Addictive Disorders. He has personal knowledge of the disorder of alcoholism and addiction and has been involved in the addictions treatment area in both professional and advocacy roles for the past 15 years. He also has an extensive history in business enterprises....
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.
Andrea Grubb-Barthwell is CEO of HRDI and director of healthcare and policy-consulting firm EMGlobal LLC. President George W Bush nominated her as deputy director for Demand Reduction in the UNODCP Office of national Drug Control Policy. Andrea was a principal adviser in the [White House] Executive Office of the President on policies aimed at reducing the demand for illicit drugs. During her tenure, the Bush administration publicised science-based facts about the dangers of marijuana and drug legalisation, promoted student drug testing as a deterrent and an identification tool, and promoted drug courts. Andrea was also a member of the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth and its Domestic Violence Working Group. She worked with the National Institute on Drug Abuse to define its research scope. She hosted a weekly cable show on Aids, and is past president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. In 2003, Andrea received the Betty Ford Award from the Association for Medical Education & Research iin Substance Abuse. In 1997, she was named one of the "Best Doctors in America" in addiction. She is a trustee of the Addiction Recovery Foundation
Kim Martin is the admissions and marketing manager for Crossroads Centre Antigua, an international residential facility for the treatment of alcohol and other drug addictions. She has 15 years of clinical and managerial experience in the addiction profession, having worked in both Canada and Antigua.
While living in Canada she worked as a clinician in an outpatient programme and during this time also developed and implemented a school- based programme for adolescents at risk. She has been active in various community development and community awareness projects. Prior to entering the addiction profession she was active in the field of HIV/AIDS.
