Our Team

David Best Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the Centre for Addiction Recovery Research (CARR) at Leeds Trinity University. He is also Honorary Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University and Honorary Associate Professor in Eastern Health Clinical School at Monash University in Melbourne. He currently serves as President and Research Director of the Recovery Outcomes Institute in Florida. He has published more than 230 peer-reviewed papers in the areas of substance use, offending and recovery as well as eight authored or edited books and special issues and more than 70 book chapters and technical reports. His primary area of work is around recovery and specifically in the area of recovery capital. He leads ROI’s research initiatives and is responsible for ensuring that our research is relevant and responsive to the needs of the recovery community.