About this speaker
Aidan Gray is currently the Director of Development and Innovation for Porchlight. Over the last 32 years he has worked in the substance use, mental health and more recently homelessness sectors. In the 1990’s he helped to pioneer effective treatment and harm reduction approaches to working with crack and cocaine dependency and developed a range of CBT programmes that incorporated a neurological understanding of different substances and how these affected thinking and behaviour.
In a consultancy role, he has worked with various government departments such as the National Treatment Agency, Cabinet Office, Home Office and Department of Health and has also been significantly involved in the development of approaches to working with methamphetamine, alcohol and wellbeing in the Czech Republic.