Owen Bowden-Jones is a Consultant in Addiction Psychiatry and an Honorary Professor at University College London, UK. In 2010 he founded the Club Drug Clinic, London, an innovative service offering treatment for club drugs and novel psychoactive substances. He is Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and national clinical adviser at the Office for Health Improvement. He is also a trustee of the Society for the Study of Addiction and a board member at the International Society for the Study of Emerging Drugs. His research interests include emerging drug harms, particularly in young people.