• her early research connections to the World Health Organization
• raising the visibility of alcohol as a gender issue
• helping to develop the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST)
• the promise of artificial intelligence for expanding access to alcohol screening, advice, and care
• why scientific evidence is essential for countering industry narratives

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• her work’s focus on service development and advising governments ‘what to do’
• the demands of academic life
• changes in the field in the 1980s and 1990s with the spread of HIV and the focus on criminal justice
• exercises in ‘research management’ and ‘knowledge translation’
• her aim to link drugs to wider issues of social policy

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• formative experiences with the construction industry and liberal arts
• interest in the ‘social psychiatry’ model
• going to Harvard University and meeting leading figures in the addictions field
• publishing science books for policy audiences
• his views on cannabis legalisation

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On 6 November 2024, Virginia Berridge interviewed Shekhar Saxena for the Addiction Lives series. Here they talk about Shekhar being one of the first formally qualified addiction specialists in Delhi (India), working for the World Health Organization and helping to get alcohol on the global agenda, and the evolving threat of gambling.

Addiction Lives is an interview series that seeks to preserve the memories and experiences of people who work in the field of addiction.

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On 24 January 2023, Kieran Moriarty interviewed Sir Ian Gilmore for the Addiction Lives series. Here they talk about Sir Ian’s work with successive governments on health policy and why he resigned ‘rather publicly’ as co-chair of a Public Health England committee, as well as about the impact of COVID-19 on alcohol-related harm and the need to train liver specialists in addiction.

Addiction Lives is a print and online collaboration between Addiction and the Society for the Study of Addiction, and is edited by Professor Virginia Berridge with support from Jean O’Reilly. The series focuses on the views and personal experiences of people who have made particular contributions to the evolution of ideas in the journal’s field of interest.

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On 18 January 2023, Virginia Berridge interviewed Viv Evans, Chief Executive of Afdam, for the Addiction Lives series. Here they talk about family drug and alcohol courts, workforce development via the Skills Consortium, and how Viv helped bring awareness to the ‘hidden harm’ of substance use to children.

"I still get a huge amount of satisfaction from my job, a huge amount, despite the difficulties, despite the challenges."

Addiction Lives is a print and online collaboration between Addiction and the Society for the Study of Addiction, and is edited by Professor Virginia Berridge with support from Jean O’Reilly. The series focuses on the views and personal experiences of people who have made particular contributions to the evolution of ideas in the journal’s field of interest.

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On 15 November 2022, Duncan Raistrick interviewed consultant clinical psychologist Robin Davidson for the Addiction Lives series. Here they talk about Robin’s first introductions to transformative change and recovery through his father’s work, ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’ in the addiction field, and the need for comprehensive, theoretically-based interventions.

"If I was living life over again, I wouldn’t change it one bit. I think that our speciality has so much to offer in terms of behavioural change, in terms of this motivation, commitment and all of these sorts of things, that it’s a joy as a clinical psychologist to work in addictions and I think that yeah, I don’t think I would change it."

Addiction Lives is a print and online collaboration between Addiction and the Society for the Study of Addiction, and is edited by Professor Virginia Berridge with support from Jean O’Reilly. The series focuses on the views and personal experiences of people who have made particular contributions to the evolution of ideas in the journal’s field of interest.

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This interview comes from the series Addiction Lives, a print and online collaboration between the journal Addiction and the Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA) which is edited by Professor Virginia Berridge with support from Jean O’Reilly. The series focuses on the views and personal experiences of people who have made particular contributions to the evolution of ideas in the journal’s field of interest.

This interview is with Professor Moira Plant, who is Professor Emerita of Alcohol Studies at the University of West of England in Bristol UK and Adjunct Professor at Curtin University Perth Australia. Her main research interests include women, alcohol and mental health, drinking in pregnancy and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. She is also a psychotherapist and trains and supervises counsellors. Moira was the UK lead on Gender Alcohol and Culture: An International Project (GENACIS) which now includes over 40 countries worldwide, and has acted as a consultant to the World Health Organisation, the UK and other governments, and to the US Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD).

This interview was conducted by Professor Virginia Berridge on 9 November 2018 in Newcastle, UK (during the SSA conference). The full interview, along with a transcript can be found here.

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