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Overview

David Best is a researcher primarily affiliated with the University of Derby in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans multiple fields of study including Health Professions, Medicine, and Social Sciences, with particular focus on General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their research covers a range of topics, notably Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Homelessness and Social Issues, and Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes. Other areas of focus include Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Health disparities and outcomes, Schizophrenia research and treatment, and Community Health and Development.

David Best has published frequently in several key journals. The most common publication venues include:

  • Drugs Education Prevention and Policy
  • Addiction Research & Theory
  • Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy
  • Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly
  • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Their recent notable publications are:

  • The science of recovery capital: where do we go from here? (2021) in Addiction
  • Comparing three stages of addiction recovery: long-term recovery and its relation to housing problems, crime, occupation situation, and substance use (2020) in Drugs Education Prevention and Policy
  • Measuring capital in active addiction and recovery: the development of the strengths and barriers recovery scale (SABRS) (2020) in Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy
  • Putting 'Justice' in Recovery Capital: Yarning about Hopes and Futures with Young People in Detention (2020) in International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy
  • The Strengths and Barriers Recovery Scale (SABRS): Relationships Matter in Building Strengths and Overcoming Barriers (2021) in Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Best include:

  • Wouter Vanderplasschen
  • Arun Sondhi
  • David Patton
  • Mulka Nisic
  • Thomas F. Martinelli

Best Publications

  • The Maudsley Addiction Profile (MAP):A brief instrument for assessing treatment outcome.

    John Marsden;Michael Gossop;Duncan Stewart;David Best

  • Overcoming alcohol and other drug addiction as a process of social identity transition: the social identity model of recovery (SIMOR)

    David Best;Melinda Beckwith;Catherine Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam

  • Loss of tolerance and overdose mortality after inpatient opiate detoxification: follow up study

    John Strang;Jim McCambridge;David Best;Tracy Beswick

  • The Assessment of Recovery Capital: properties and psychometrics of a measure of addiction recovery strengths

    Teodora Groshkova;David William Best;William White

  • Breaking good: breaking ties with social groups may be good for recovery from substance misuse

    Genevieve A. Dingle;Claire Stark;Tegan Cruwys;David Best

  • Overdose training and take‐home naloxone for opiate users: prospective cohort study of impact on knowledge and attitudes and subsequent management of overdoses

    J Strang;Victoria Manning;Soraya Mayet;David William Best

  • Preventing opiate overdose fatalities with take-home naloxone: pre-launch study of possible impact and acceptability

    John Strang;Beverly Powis;David Best;Louisa Vingoe

  • New estimates of the number of children living with substance misusing parents: results from UK national household surveys

    Victoria Manning;David William Best;Nathan Faulkner;Emily Titherington

  • Mapping the recovery stories of drinkers and drug users in Glasgow: Quality of life and its associations with measures of recovery capital

    David Best;Jane Gow;Tony Knox;Avril Taylor

  • After 30 years of dissemination, have we achieved sustained practice change in motivational interviewing?

    Kate Hall;Kate Hall;Petra K. Staiger;Angela Simpson;Angela Simpson;David Best;David Best;David Best

  • Excessive drinking and other problem behaviours among 14-16 year old schoolchildren.

    David Best;Victoria Manning;Michael Gossop;Samantha Gross

  • Development and validation of a Brief Assessment of Recovery Capital (BARC-10) for alcohol and drug use disorder

    Corrie L. Vilsaint;John F. Kelly;Brandon G. Bergman;Teodora Groshkova

  • Test–retest reliability of the Severity of Dependence Scale

    Michael Gossop;David Best;John Marsden;John Strang

  • Is attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after inpatient treatment related to improved outcomes? A 6-month follow-up study.

    Michael Gossop;Jennifer Harris;David Best;Lan Ho Man

  • Breaking the habit: a retrospective analysis of desistance factors among formerly problematic heroin users

    David William Best;Safeena Ghufran;Ed Day;Rajashree Ray

  • Recovery capital pathways: Modelling the components of recovery wellbeing.

    Ivan Cano;David Best;Michael Edwards;John Lehman

  • Social identity, social networks and recovery capital in emerging adulthood: A pilot study

    Emily Mawson;David William Best;David William Best;David William Best;Melinda Beckwith;Genevieve Anita Dingle

  • “Is it me or should my friends take the credit?” The role of social networks and social identity in recovery from addiction

    Ramez Bathish;Ramez Bathish;David Best;David Best;Michael Savic;Melinda Beckwith

  • Strategies to facilitate integrated care for people with alcohol and other drug problems: a systematic review

    Michael Savic;Michael Savic;David Best;Victoria Manning;Victoria Manning;Daniel Lubman;Daniel Lubman

  • Challenging the brain disease model of addiction: European launch of the addiction theory network

    Nick Heather;David Best;Anna Kawalek;Matt Field

  • Crime and Expenditure amongst Polydrug Misusers Seeking Treatment : The Connection between Prescribed Methadone and Crack Use, and Criminal Involvement

    David Best;Clare Sidwell;Michael Gossop;Jenny Harris

  • Accuracy of perceptions of hepatitis B and C status: cross sectional investigation of opiate addicts in treatment

    David Best;Alison Noble;Emily Finch;Michael Gossop

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan I. Lubman
Dan I. Lubman Monash University
Victoria Manning
Victoria Manning Monash University
Petra K. Staiger
Petra K. Staiger Deakin University
Genevieve A. Dingle
Genevieve A. Dingle University of Queensland
William L. White
William L. White Yale University
John Marsden
John Marsden King's College London
Catherine Haslam
Catherine Haslam University of Queensland
Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
Salman Rawaf
Salman Rawaf Imperial College London
D. Dwayne Simpson
D. Dwayne Simpson Texas Christian University

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