Christos Kouimtsidis, MBBS, MSc, MRCPsych, is Consultant Psychiatrist at NWHerts Community Drug and Alcohol Team, Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Section of Addictive Behaviour, St George's, University of London since 2003. He was Specialist Registrar and later Clinical Lecturer in Addiction Psychiatry at St George's from 1998.His MSc dissertation in 1996 was on CBT in substance misuse.His doctorate is an investigation of the role of expectancies and schemas in treatment and relapse of substance misuse. He has been involved in quantitative and qualitative re...