JamesGriffith Edwards CBE (3 October 1928[1] – 13 September 2012[2]) was a British psychiatrist.
Edwards was born on 3 October 1928[1][3] in India and received his M.D. from Balliol College, Oxford. His research focused on the study and treatment of alcohol and other drug dependence and related aspects of addictions.[4]
He was director of the Medical Research Council-funded Addiction Research Unit from 1968 until his retirement from King's College London. He also established the UK National Addiction Centre in London and was its first Chair and Director. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Addiction for twenty-five years. In 1971 he delivered the Edwin Stevens Lecture.[5] Awards he received include the E.M. Jellinek Memorial Award in 1979 for his research on alcohol use disorders,[6] and being made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1987 for his services to social science and medicine,[5] among others.
Edwards wrote extensively on policy aspects of alcohol and other drug problems and promoted a balanced public health population-based approached to the tackling of alcohol and other drug problems. He wrote the original description of alcohol dependence and the terminology of dependence has become the global term adopted in international disease classification systems including the DSM and ICD classifications.
Edwards wrote on alcohol and other drugs for both professionals and academics, and for a general audience. His popular science books include Alcohol, The Worlds Favourite Drug, Matters of Substance: Drugs, and Why Everyone is a User.[citation needed] He also sole-authored in 1982 the first edition of the book The Treatment of Drinking Problems and contributed as an author, co-author, and advisor to its subsequent editions. After his death, the five other authors of the sixth edition renamed the book in his honour as Edwards' Treatment of Drinking Problems.[7]
^ abSchukit, Marc A. (2012). "The History of Our Field: Reflections on the Solid Foundations on Which We Stand — The Contributions of Griffith Edwards". Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 73 (1): 6–9. doi:10.15288/jsad.2012.73.6. PMID 22152655.
^West, Robert (15 September 2012). "Editor's Notes A message from Robert West, Editor-in-Chief". Alcohol reports.
^Ghodse, Hamid (25 September 2012). "Griffith Edwards obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
^"Professor Griffith Edwards, CBE (Obituary)". King's College London. 12 October 2012. Archived from the original on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
^ ab"Professor Griffith Edwards, CBE". www.kcl.ac.uk. King’s College London. Archived from the original on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
^"Jellinek Awards - Jellinek Memorial Awards". www.jellinekaward.org. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
^Humphreys, Keith; Lingford-Hughes, Anne; Edwards, Griffith; Ball, David M.; Cook, Chris; Marshall, E. Jane (2016). Edwards' treatment of drinking problems : a guide for the helping professions Edwards' treatment of drinking problems : a guide for the helping professions (Sixth ed.). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107519527. OCLC 926623377.
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