Our guest today is Peter Sheath, a mental health nurse, counsellor, consultant, trainer and person in long term recovery who has been involved in the field of health and social care for many years. He has worked in a variety of mental health settings including managing acute psychiatry units, community psychiatric nursing, day centre management and nurse teaching. Peter is extremely passionate about addiction and its relationship with mental health. As a result, he has worked extensively in the third sector since moving in to substance misuse. In 2011 Peter was invited to address the United Nations Drugs Symposium and UK drugs consortium to talk specifically about recovery from addiction and this will be the topic of our discussion today.
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Excellent discussion, Peter and Barry. Peter, I knew you knew a lot about addiction, but it wasn’t until I heard this that I realized just how much you know, at how deep, intelligent, and empathic a level. Truly inspiring!