Nick Charles Alcohol recovery pioneerNick Charles MBE is a pioneer in the treatment of alcohol dependency, drawing on his own painful experience of it. In the 1997 New Year Honours he became the first person in the UK to be recognised ‘for services to people with alcohol problems’. Books by Nick Charles50 Years of Hard Road: A Vagrant’s Journey by Nick Charles MBE (Hawksmoor Publishing)The Honest Truth: Using the ACR to explore Alcohol Dependency (Hawksmoor Publishing)