Dr. Best is Professor and Director of the Centre for Addiction Recovery Research (CARR) at Leeds Trinity University, Honorary Professor of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University, Adjunct Associate Professor of Addiction Science at Monash University (Melbourne) and Affiliate Senior Scientist at the Public Health Institute in California. He is also a founding member of the College of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations in the UK and of the Inclusive Recovery Cities movement where he is chair of Inclusive Recovery Cities UK.

Trained as a psychologist and criminologist, he has worked in practice, research and policy in the areas of addiction recovery and rehabilitation of offenders. He has authored or co-edited seven books on addiction recovery and desistance from offending and has written more than 240 peer-reviewed journal publications and around 70 book chapters and technical reports. As of December 2024, he has an h-index of 44 and a total of 7005 citations of his academic work. He is one of the leading academics in the area of addiction recovery and a key innovator in developing recovery capital measurement tools and methods.

Show Notes

• You can find out more about the Centre on their website
• You can find out more about the College of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations on their website
• David Best's blog can be found here
• We talk about recovery capital. I mention NBHAP's National Recovery Capital Conference
• David mentions the Recovery Research Institute, which can be found here
• He also mentions Chestnut Health System, which can be found here
• We discuss the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and Dave Sheridan's episode on Destination Change