Colin Brewer

Colin Brewer is a psychiatrist and writer and has specialised in addiction treatment, after a career as lecturer and research fellow in psychiatry. His medical journalism has appeared in the broadsheets, the Spectator, New Scientist, and regular columns in General Practitioner and the British Medical Journal. Several dozen of his peer-reviewed research publications deal with obesity surgery, abortion, and assisted dying as well as addiction. He co-edited the book 'I’ll See Myself Out, Thank You' (2015) with Michael Irwin and is the author of 'Can Social Work Survive?' (1980), 'O, Let Me Not Get Alzheimer’s, Sweet Heaven!' (2019), and 'The God Effect' (2026). He is co-chair of My Death, My Decision’s clinical advisory group.