The Developers
Dr Stuart Linke is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 40 years' experience in the NHS.
He is also a researcher at University College London developing and evaluating online interventions.
Recent projects include collaborating on a rehabilitation programme for sufferers of long COVID and an innovative app for treating social anxiety.
Richard McGregor, CEO of Codeface has over 30 years of experience as a website developer, software engineer, business analyst, database designer and project manager.
Stuart and Richard have worked together for over twenty years developing, evaluating and refining an online treatment programme, downyourdrink, to promote alcohol harm reduction. They have brought together their combined expertise to create drinkbreak.
Science Background
A review of the field by Linke and Murray can be found at https://oxfordre.com/psychology/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.001.0001/acrefore-9780190236557-e-127
Cochrane review of the evidence for the effectiveness of digital interventions to reduce hazardous alcohol consumption can be found at https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD011479.pub2/full
Randomised controlled trial of Down Your Drink https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0014740
Controlled drinking as well as abstinence is a reasonable goal. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33188563/