Addictions: Your Questions Answered (Element Guides) [Paperback]

Deidre Boyd (Author), Deirdre Boyd (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Element Books (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1862041806
• ISBN-13: 978-1862041806
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,581,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

About the author:
Deirdre Boyd is CEO of the Addiction Recovery Foundation, editor of Addiction Today - the only journal in the UK showing how to recover from addiction/dependency, and cofounder/organiser of the UK/European Symposia on Addictive Disorders, the largest addiction-recovery event in Europe.

Her first version of this book sold out in seven languages. The updated version is now available as "Addictions & Recovery: Self-help for Addicts, Families, Friends" (ISBN 1450562736; EAN 9781450562737).

Deirdre Boyd also wrote mental-health charity Mind's booklet on Understanding Addiction/Dependency.

She is a member of the Centre for Policy Studies' Prisons and Addictions think-tank, of the Recovery Academy, of the Recovery Group UK and of the UK Recovery Foundation. She participated in the dti's Office of Science & Technology project on Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs, forecasting the next two decades. She was a trustee of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics UK.

In 2006, ICAA awarded her the Dr Vincent Bakeman memorial award for Outstanding Community Service. She received a 2010 Pillar Of The Community award at Sierra Tucson's first UK awards ceremony