David Best, PhD

David Best, PhD, is professor and director of the Centre for Addiction Recovery Research (CARR) at Leeds Trinity University, honorary professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University, and honorary associate professor in Eastern Health Clinical School at Monash University in Melbourne. He is also president of the Recovery Outcomes Institute in Florida. Dr. Best has published more than 230 peer-reviewed papers in the areas of substance use, offending, and recovery as well as eight authored or edited books and special issues and more than seventy book chapters and technical reports. His primary area of work is around recovery and specifically recovery capital.