Dr David Patton shares about his recent paper to the UN’s Commission on Narcotics Drugs about tackling stigma in treatment and recovery. From changing the way we encourage people to talk about their experiences of addiction to how people in recovery should be seen as the experts in change.

Dr David Patton’s research centres on the lived experience of people recovering from addiction and rehabilitating from offending histories. It uses the often marginalised voices of these individuals to co-produce utopian visions of how the criminal justice system and society can be radically transformed to promote human flourishing.