Formerly a university lecturer and research fellow in psychiatry, Colin Brewer was Director of the Westminster Hospital alcoholism service and later medical director of a private addiction treatment centre in London. His published scientific papers cover abortion, alcoholic brain damage, obesity and behavioural psychotherapy, inter alia, as well as addiction. His medical journalism has appeared in the Times, Guardian, Spectator and New Scientist. He is the author, with June Lait, of ‘Can social work survive?’ (1980), with Emmanuel Streel of ‘Antabuse treatment for alcoholism’ (2018), and 'O, let me not get Alzheimer’s, sweet heaven! Why many people prefer death or deliverance to living with dementia' (2019).
