One of Scotland’s most influential experts on rehab has told how his own battle with addiction inspired him to help others to recovery. Dr David McCartney recently marked 20 years of sobriety after falling into alcoholism as a GP in Edinburgh.
He faced a mountain to climb to put the addiction behind him and get his mind and body back on track, with residential rehab a key building block of his recovery.
Dr McCartney used his own trauma as a vital tool in helping others, completing for a Masters degree in alcohol and drug studies before forming the Lothians and Edinburgh Abstinence Programme (LEAP), Scotland’s only NHS therapeutic community rehabilitation centre.
