Dr Euan Lawson

Dr Euan Lawson is a GP and clinical academic at Lancaster Medical School, with twenty years clinical experience in general practice, out of hours care, community drug teams, prison healthcare and inclusion health. He started with the BJGP as Deputy Editor in 2013 and has been Editor since 2020. He served as a medical officer in the British Army until 2004. He is now a Senior Clinical Lecturer and he is part of the Mental Health Research Group at Lancaster University exploring physical health in people with severe mental illness. He is a co-investigator on the NIHR-funded In-BOAT trial of benzodiazepine maintenance in people on opioid agonist therapy and his own research examines how primary care serves people who use drugs. He chairs the Faculty of Public Health Drugs Special Interest Group and he is a trustee of Red Rose Recovery, a lived-experience recovery organisation in Lancashire.