Keith Humphreys

Humphreys won the 2021 Under Secretary's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

[7] In his widely-cited book, Circles of Recovery, Humphreys synthesized extensive evidence that a broad range of mutual help groups benefit individuals with substance use disorders.

Both Kleiman and Humphreys rejected as a false dichotomy the choice between criminal punishment of marijuana users and an unregulated profit seeking corporate sector creating a clone of the tobacco industry.

This has included advising the London Greater Authority on the establishment of mandatory sobriety programs for alcohol-involved offenders, serving on Professor Dame Carol Black’s independent review of British drug policy, and being a member of Baroness Ilora Finlay‘s Commission on Alcohol Harm.

In 2022, Queen Elizabeth II made Humphreys an Honorary Officer of the British Empire to recognize his service to addiction science and policy in Britain.

Humphreys frequently writes for a general audience about addiction, mental health, criminal justice, and drug policy.