Corporate report

Register of interests

Updated 13 January 2025

1. Professor Judith Aldridge

Professor of Criminology, University of Manchester

Declaration of interests

• Advisor, the Staying Safe educational programme of alcohol and drug learning materials for UK university students (2022)

• George Soros Visiting Chair, School of Public Policy, Central European University (2017)

• Collaborator, Centre International de Criminologie Comparée (CICC), University of Montreal

• member of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, European Society of Criminology

• Editorial Board, Addiction, Research and Theory; Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

• Advisory Board, Recovering Justice UK

• Advisory work, European Commission, Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe, EMCDDA

• consultancy services provided to Release UK

• research funding received from:

  • UK Research Councils

  • Nuffield

  • Ministry of Justice (the Netherlands)

  • NESTA

  • Manchester City Council

  • Home Office

  • National Institute for Health Research

2. Professor Owen Bowden-Jones

Consultant psychiatrist, Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Professor, University College London

Declaration of interests

• clinical Lead, Club Drug Clinic Central North West London NHS Foundation Club Drug Clinic

• private medical practice

• research funding received from:

  • The Health Foundation

  • Trustee, Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA)

  • board member, International Society for the Study of Emerging Drugs (ISSED)

3. Professor Anne Campbell MBE

Professor in substance use at Queen’s University Belfast School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work

Declaration of interests

• National Institute of Drug Abuse (US) Life time International Clinical Research fellow

• member of the Treatment and Support Advisory Committee, Northern Ireland Department of Health

• Co-Director of the Drug and Alcohol Network (DARN), Queens University Belfast

• board member of Ascert, (Community Drug and Alcohol service provider in Northern Ireland)

• extern, (Community Drug and Alcohol service provider in Northern Ireland) Volunteer shift worker on the Street Injectors Support Service

4. Dr Caroline Copeland

Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology & Toxicology, King’s College London

Declaration of interests

• Director, National Programme on Substance Use Mortality (NPSUM)

• research funding received from:

  • UK research councils
  • Home Office
  • Local Authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

• consultancy services provided to local authorities and police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

• fellow, British Pharmacological Society

• member of the Society for the Study of Addiction, the UK & Ireland Association of Forensic Toxicologists, the LTG

• novel psychoactive substances (NPS) Expert, European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA)

5. Professor Colin Davidson

Professor of Neuropharmacology, University of Central Lancashire

Declaration of interests

• Consultant and Expert Witness for Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, MOD

• External Examiner for BSc Pharmacology, University of Dundee

• Editorial Board for the European Journal of Pharmacology; Editorial Board for Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry

• member of Council for Laboratory Animal Science Association (LASA); member of board of Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA)

• Awards Committee for the British Pharmacological Society

• Assessment Regulatory Committee for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

• previous funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIH, USA; NC3Rs; European Community; Health Education England (HEE)

6. Mohammed Fessal

Director of Pharmacy, Change Grow Live (CGL)

Declaration of interests

• research grants for studies relating to opioid addiction from Indivior and Ethypharm

• Non Executive Director, West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS)

7. Bethan Gibbs

Senior Mental Health Clinician, Specialist Social Worker, NELFT

Declaration of interests

Nil

8. Professor Amira Guirguis

Professor of Pharmacy, MPharm Programme Director at Swansea University Medical School

Declaration of interests

• financial interest: Professor of Pharmacy, MPharm Programme Director, Pharmacist Independent Prescriber (Drug and Alcohol Services)

• member of the General Pharmaceutical Council’s Fitness to Practise Committee

• member of the Accreditation Panel of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland

• External Examiner on the MPharm (University of Bradford), Assessor of the Higher Education Fellowship (Swansea University)

• in the past, has received honoraria from Jazz Pharmaceuticals and was invited to sponsored conferences by Indivior and Camurus

• non-financial interest: Senior Research fellow (University of Hertfordshire)

• Chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Science & Research Committee

• committee member of the Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group

• consultancies: Expert Witness (Trading Standards, Kingsman Solicitors, AH Solicitors, MB Law Ltd Solicitors)

9. Dr Hilary Hamnett

Associate Professor in Forensic Science, University of Lincoln and Forensic Toxicologist

Declaration of interests

Nil

10. Jason Harwin

Director and Co-founder of E-T-E Solutions Limited

Declaration of interests

• Director and co-founder of E-T-E Solutions Ltd, providing consultancy services to the Private, Public and Voluntary sectors

• Advisor to the Durham and Darlington Police and Crime Commissioner and co-chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners Substance Misuse portfolio

• Consultant to Social Justice Charity Cranstoun

• Consultant services to pharmaceutical company Camurus

• Guest Presenter on PolicingTV

• Trustee of Charity Stamp out Spiking

11. Professor Graeme Henderson

Professor of Pharmacology, University of Bristol

Declaration of interests

• Trustee, the Bristol Drugs Project

• Volunteer, Health and Harm Reduction Centre, Bristol Drugs Project

• research funding received from:

  • Medical Research Council (UK)

  • National Institute on Drug Addiction (USA)

12. Professor Katy Holloway

Professor of Criminology, University of South Wales

Declaration of interests

• financial interests: Current research funding awarded by: Welsh Government, Health Care Research Wales, Wales Probation Service, University of South Wales (Knowledge Exchange Innovation Fund)

• past research funding awarded by: NIHR, Gwent Police, Thames Valley Police, Home Office, Barod, NOMS Cymru, Clinks, Ministry of Justice, Home Office, Swedish Council for Crime Prevention, Local Government Association, Welsh Council for Alcohol and Drug Abuse (WCADA), Cyfannol Women’s Aid

• non-financial interests: Advisory Group/Board membership: Wales Probation Service Substance Use Officers Project; Ripping up the Rulebook (a Wellcome Trust funded project led by Dr Fay Dennis at Goldsmiths University of London); Kaleidoscope’s Research, Development and Innovation Sub- group; Dyfodol, IRIS, Gwent, Dyfed Drug and Alcohol Services (DIGDAS) Executive Board; Public Health Wales’ Ask Check Treat (ACT) Selfcare Wound Pack project evaluation; Staying Safe Programme educational course for UK university students

• other board membership: Welsh Government’s National Implementation Board for Drug Poisoning Prevention; University of South Wales Wellbeing Governance Steering Group Sub- Group on Substance Use; Western Bay Drugs Commission; Welsh Centre for Alcohol and Other Drugs – Policy, Practice and Research

• member of the British Society for Criminology.

13. Dr Carole Hunter

Retired. Chair SDF Board. Doping Control Officer UK Antidoping.

Doping Control Officer, UK Antidoping

Declaration of interests

• fellow, Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)

• former member, RPS Medicines, Ethics and Practice Guide Advisory Panel

• former Chair, Scottish Specialist Pharmacists in Substance Use Group

• member, Police Scotland Drug Strategy Group

• Royal Pharmaceutical Society representative, Drug Deaths Taskforce (Scotland) 2020-22

• member, Independent Expert Working Group, Drug Misuse and Dependence, UK Guidelines on Drug Misuse and Dependence (Orange Guidelines) 2017

• former member, Drug Strategy Delivery Group (Scotland)

• former Chair, National Naloxone Advisory Group (NNAG), Scotland

• Board Chair Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF)

14. Professor Stephen Husbands

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Bath

Declaration of interests

• funding received from US National Institutes for Health (NIDA and NIAAA), UK Research Councils and a PhD studentship from Camurus

15. Professor Roger Knaggs

Professor of Pain Management in Clinical Pharmacy Practice, University of Nottingham. Specialist Pharmacist in Pain Management, Primary Integrated Community Services

Declaration of interests

• President, British Pain Society

• co-opted member, Faculty of Pain Medicine Board

• member, Controlled Drugs National Group combined subgroup, Care Quality Commission

16. Sapna Lewis

Senior Lawyer, Welsh Government Legal Services Department

Declaration of interests

Nil

17. Fiona Spargo-Mabbs OBE

Director and Founder, Daniel Sargo-Mabbs Foundation. Chair, Drug Education Forum.

Declaration of interests

• Director and Founder of drug education charity the Daniel Sargo-Mabbs Foundation 2016 - present

• Chair of the Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation 2014-2016

• Chair of Drug Education Forum 2024 to present

• Chair of Drugs on Social Media working group 2021-2024

• Lead Applicant on Phase 1 NIHR Innovation Fund to Reduce the Demand for Illicit Substances 2023

• Joint Lead Applicant on Phase 2 NIHR Innovation Fund to Reduce the Demand for Illicit Substances 2024-25

• former member Home Office Reducing Demand programme board 2022 - 2024

• husband and son are Trustees of the Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation

• research funding received from NIHR

18. Dr Richard Stevenson

Emergency Medicine Consultant, Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Declaration of interests

• Lead Medical Adviser for Clinical Governance for Police Scotland

• Special Constable, British Transport Police,

19. Professor Paul Stokes

Professor of Mood Disorders and Psychopharmacology, King’s College London and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Declaration of interests

• member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Academic Psychiatry executive committee

• NIHR CRN South London Lead for Mental Health

• member of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Targeting Cognition and Chronobiology taskforces

• Specialty Chief Editor for the Mood and Anxiety Disorders section of Frontiers in Psychiatry

• research funding and related expenses received from Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Corcept Therapeutics, H. Lundbeck, Frontiers in Psychiatry

• non-financial research support received from Janssen Research and Development LLC

• honoraria received from Indivior, Liva Nova, Allergan and Frontiers in Psychiatry for lecturing, consultancy and editorial work

20. Professor Harry Sumnall

Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)

Declaration of interests

• receives funding from UK and international research councils and charities

• Scientific Advisor:

  • MIND Foundation, Germany

  • International Society of Substance Use Professionals (ISSUP)

  • UK Drug Education Forum

• Scientific Board – Lisbon Addictions conference

• Steering Committee member: Anti Stigma Network

• former Board member/Past President of the European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR)

• Editorial board member Journal of Prevention, Addictive Behaviors

• consultancies and honoraria from international agencies, Ministries, founders, charities, drug treatment service providers, and pharmaceutical & biotech industries (peer review, training, education, and consultancy)

21. Professor Simon Thomas

Emeritus Professor, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Newcastle University

Declaration of interests

• Deputy Editor, Clinical Toxicology

• member, Ministry of Defence Advisory Group on Military and Emergency Response Medicine

• research funding received from:

  • DHSC - OHID

  • National Institute for Health Research

  • Ministry of Defence

22. Professor Derek Tracy

Chief Medical Officer, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Declaration of interests

• editorial board and social media lead of the British Journal of Psychiatry

• executive member and quality improvement lead for the Academic Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

• member of the National Institute for Health Research Dissemination Centre Advisory Group

23. Rosalie Weetman

Group Manager (Public Health Principal) Inclusion Public Health

Declaration of interests

• former independent complaints panel member for the Portman Group, which evaluates code of practice violations relating to alcohol packaging, promotions and marketing (ceased July 2021)

• former specialist advisor to the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s inquiry on drugs policy

24. Dr David Wood

Consultant Physician and Clinical Toxicologist, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and Honorary Reader, King’s College London

Declaration of interests

• expert advisor to:

  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

  • European Union Drugs Agency (previously known as the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction)

  • World Health Organisation

• Trustee, Positive East

• Senior Editor, Journal of Medical Toxicology

• Clinical co-ordinator, National Confidential Enquiry on Patient Outcome and Death

• funding/grants received from:

  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

  • European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

  • European Union

  • National Institute for Health Research

  • Researched Abuse, Diversion and Addiction-Related Surveillance (RADARS) system