Betsy Thom

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'''Betsy Thom''' is a British sociologist and Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Mental Health & Social Work at Middlesex University<ref>{{cite web |title=Middlesex University Professor Betsy Thom |url=https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/thom-betsy}}</ref> She is known for her works on substance abuse and substance use policy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Betsy Thom |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Betsy-Thom |website=ResearchGate}}</ref> She is the head of the Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at Middlesex University <ref>{{cite web |title=Drug and Alcohol Research Centre {{!}} Middlesex University London |url=https://www.mdx.ac.uk/our-research/centres/drugs-and-alcohol-research-centre |website=www.mdx.ac.uk |access-date=July 26, 2022}}</ref>

She has made notable contributions to the literature as an author in the area of drug and alcohol policy; her contributions were recognised by the Society for the Study of Addiction in their Addiction Lives series <ref>{{cite web |title=Addiction Lives Interviews: Betsy Thom and Harry Shapiro |url=https://pointshistory.com/2021/05/13/addiction-lives-thom-and-shapiro/ |website=Points: short & insightful writing about a long & complex history |date=13 May 2021 |access-date=19 October 2021 |archive-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019073346/https://pointshistory.com/2021/05/13/addiction-lives-thom-and-shapiro/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and in the journal Addiction (journal).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Berridge |first1=Virginia |title=Addiction Lives: Betsy Thom |journal=Addiction |date=January 2019 |volume=114 |issue=1 |pages=183–185 |doi=10.1111/add.14375|pmid=29974569 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

She was Editor-In-Chief at the Taylor & Francis journal [https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/idep20 Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy] for over 20 years. Professor Thom helped to establish the network [https://www.isaje.net International Society of Addiction Journal Editors], a collective of Editors and Editorial Board members working in the Addiction field.

==Books== *Butler, S., Elmeland, K., Nicholls, J. and Thom, B. ''Alcohol, power and public health: A comparative study of alcohol policy'', Routledge 2017 *Kolind, T., Thom, B. and Hunt G. ''Handbook of Drug and Alcohol Studies'', SAGE 2016 *''Growing up with risk'', edited by Betsy Thom, Rosemary Sales and Jenny Pearce, Policy Press 2007

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