Griffith Edwards was born in India where his father directed the Imperial Institute of Veterinary Research, and educated at Andover Grammar School, Balliol College, Oxford and the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital. After qualifying in medicine and with postgraduate qualifications in psychiatry, his work has centred on the study and treatment of dependence on alcohol and other drugs. He is Emeritus Professor of Addiction Behaviour at the National Addiction Centre (University of London), and editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Addiction. A member of WHO's Expert Advisory Panel on Alcohol and Drugs, he has taught and consulted in many different countries. He is editor or author of 30 books, including Unreason in the Age of Reason (1971), based on lectures which won him the Stevens Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine; Alcohol Policy and the Public Good (1994), which has been translated into eight languages; and Treatment of Drinking Problems (1982), which was a Behavioral Science Book Service choice. He was awarded the CBE in 1987 for his contribution to social science and medicine. Married with two grown-up children, Griffith lives with his wife, Sue, in Greenwich, London.
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