Alcohol Addiction, Substance A...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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