Deirdre Boyd
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 charit Mind's booklet Understanding Addictions/ Dependencies. She participated in focus roups for the dti's Office of Science & Technology's Foresight rpoject on Brain Science, Addiction & Drugs - which looked to the future 25 years from now. She has been a trustee of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. In 2006, ICAA awarded her the Dr Vincent Bakeman memorial award for Outstanding Community Service.
