David Nutt is the founder of Drug Science and Chair of its Scientific Committee. He is the Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Head of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Centre for Academic Psychiatry in the Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London. He is also Visiting Professor at the Open University and Maastricht University in The Netherlands. His leadership positions include (or have included) the presidencies of the European Brain Council, British Neuroscience Association, British Association of Psychopharmacology and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, as well as his time as Chair of the UK's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
'Nutt's book achieves his goals, to put into the public domain, in non-specialist terms, the truth about psychiatric disorders and their treatments and to counter extreme and unfounded claims about drugs. It is also an absorbing read for clinicians who want to brush up on their psychopharmacology and to appreciate better the convoluted paths of government health policy decision-making.'- BJPsych Bulletin.