Failure
Failure. No one likes it to happen, or worse, admit it. Unfortunately, failure is seen as having done something bad. You got off-course; didn’t rea...
View Full Story0 CommentsUsing Methadone To Quit...
If you are planning to stop taking heroin no doubt you would have heard about methadone. Methadone can stop all the unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. ...
View Full Story0 CommentsWhats Ketamine? Does It...
Ketamine is a hallucinogenic drug which can often give the user an out-of body experience, which is why Ketamine becoming slightly more popular wi...
View Full Story0 CommentsOverdose: The Recovery ...
The likelihood of someone you know who takes drugs to have an overdose can be high so this small tutorial can hopefully help you in the future if y...
View Full Story0 CommentsThe Catalyst To My Reco...
In 2007 I was sent to prison for a 5 year sentence. My previous girlfriend was pregnant with the twin's at the time and as you can imagine I was an...
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The Loved Ones of Al...
Don’t talk. Don’t trust. Don’t feel. The 3 rules Claudia Black highlights in her book of Adult Children of Alcoholics; however you needn’t be an adul...
Recovery
Balance
Balance. Over the past few weeks, I have been doing a great deal of reading about the varied approaches to addiction treatment. In other realms of my life, I...
Addiction
STOP BUYING IT!
No self-control, no will-power. That’s how many people think when they describe addicts, together with the idea that drug and drink problems would be solve...
Alcohol Addiction, Recovery
ARE YOU USING THE RI...
Struggling to control your drinking? Regularly relapsing? Perhaps you need to look at whether you are using the right key? Because finding the best way to ge...
Recovery
You are what you think
You are what you think. Our physical bodies may be what we eat, however, our psyches are made up of our thoughts. Does this mean we should pay attention t...
Addiction
Profile of Addiction
Almost all clients I have worked with ask the question of “why me?” Not a simple question to answer, along with the fact we still know so little, about a...
Drug News
Khat. Yet More Illeg...
For anyone that is unaware, (and I am sure there are a few), Khat is a plant whose leaves can be legally chewed leading to a stimulating effect similar t...
Recovery
Recovery, a Policy f...
Three years ago I first heard that our UK Government were looking at changing the focus of the Drug Strategy to reflect recovery, rather than the existing ha...
Addiction
Failure
Failure. No one likes it to happen, or worse, admit it. Unfortunately, failure is seen as having done something bad. You got off-course; didn’t reach your ...
Employment
Become Employed
Studies have shown that up to 80% of problem drug users are unemployed, yet work has been shown to be an important component of rehabilitation and reintegrat...
Drug News
Stolen Electricity R...
Sources suggest around £200m of electricity is being stolen every year to run illegal cannabis farms across the UK. Around 4,000 cannabis farms are disco...
Drug News
Mitch Winehouse: If ...
“Nobody should know what it feels like to bury a child”, Mitch Winehouse states ruefully. “The natural process is that you bury your grandparents, your...
