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Neil Scott

Year of Award: 
2024
Affiliation: 
Recovery - Coast to Coast

For the last 20 years, Scott has been the long-time producer/host of Recovery - Coast to Coast, the National Podcast, featuring interviews with many prominent people in recovery, including Betty Ford, Judy Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Bonnie Raitt, as well as everyday people in long-term recovery. He has been in the field of addiction for close to 50 years. As Executive Director of the National Council on Alcoholism (NCA) in Santa Barbara, CA, he produced the first 18 hour Alcoholism telethon in America, which he co-hosted with Dick Van Dyke in 1976. He also was co-founder and editor of Alcoholism & Addiction Magazine.