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Location	Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Introduction	Past appointments include being a single handed GP principal in rural Wiltshire, and from 1995 to 2008 he has also been Medical Consultant to Clouds House, one of the UK’s longest established abstinence-based residential treatment centers for chemical dependency. He has also been Trust Specialist to the Wiltshire Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service. He has been involved in Generalist substance misuse training throughout the South West for many years. He is Clinical Director to Drug Treatment Ltd. In April 2008 he was appointed Clinical Lead of the Somerset integrated Drug and Alcohol service, under Turning Point. He is the RCGP Drug Training Lead to South West England and has been closely involved with the RCGP Substance Misuse Training Unit since it started and has been delegate or speaker at many conferences over the past decade. He has published numerous articles and contributed chapters to the revised “Caring for Substance Misusers in General Practice – a Harm Minimisation Approach”, and in 2005, “The RCGP Guide to The Management of Substance Misuse in Primary Care”.

Location

Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Introduction

Past appointments include being a single handed GP principal in rural Wiltshire, and from 1995 to 2008 he has also been Medical Consultant to Clouds House, one of the UK’s longest established abstinence-based residential treatment centers for chemical dependency. He has also been Trust Specialist to the Wiltshire Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service. He has been involved in Generalist substance misuse training throughout the South West for many years. He is Clinical Director to Drug Treatment Ltd. In April 2008 he was appointed Clinical Lead of the Somerset integrated Drug and Alcohol service, under Turning Point. He is the RCGP Drug Training Lead to South West England and has been closely involved with the RCGP Substance Misuse Training Unit since it started and has been delegate or speaker at many conferences over the past decade. He has published numerous articles and contributed chapters to the revised “Caring for Substance Misusers in General Practice – a Harm Minimisation Approach”, and in 2005, “The RCGP Guide to The Management of Substance Misuse in Primary Care”.