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I have previously emphasised the primary importance of treatment and treatment professionals: to facilitate the person’s natural healing processes to help them find personal recovery. I recently found an excellent description of what is required of professionals working in the field in The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model… [David Clark, Wired In]
This blog is about emerging roles in recovery orientated systems/services. Many people may be hearing the words ‘recovery coach’, ‘recovery mentor’ or ‘recovery champion’ and wondering what they are all about. All these roles involve enhancing the support for recovery which exists in local communities. What does this mean? [Matthew, Wired In]
The Basement Project is delighted to invite you to a free luncheon briefing on how we can assist you when faced with drink and drug addicts, why you should refer them and our success in helping them overcome addiction. Addiction Briefing – 10th March 2010, at The Basement, Halifax YMCA, 12:30 – 14:30 [Wired In]
So the plan? Well I have decided to learn from my son’s example when he was in rehab. I expect a lot of you are well aware of this and could give me some ideas. But each day I will refect on something that I have really enjoyed and also something I have learnt about/from and, for me, perhaps one of the key things for my recovery is what I have given another person [Susan C, Wired In]
Our book of the month for March is Chasing Dragons by Kyle Grayson. The book is listed in our extensive library of relevant and interesting titles and as ever we are grateful to our book reviewer David Hart who has written the following [Transform Drug Policy Foundation, UK]
My own view is that “harmful use” – whether of cocaine, alcohol, over-eating, or any other self-destructive behaviour – is a symptom of an underlying malaise [Telegraph, UK]
Until we know the real harm of legal recreational drugs such as mephedrone, they should be put into a holding ‘class D’ [David Nutt in Guardian, UK]
We already know much about how addiction behaves. To package it as a short term problem, cured at six months by treatment is unhelpful. Not to mention mutual aid is curious. If I were cynical, I’d be concluding that either the authors are not knowledgeable of how cocaine addiction behaves, or they want to put a positive spin on things. Neither is admirable [Peapod, Wired In]
I have been shocked recently to see people who I know to be good workers so disillusioned, angry, and upset. And leaving! And do you know what they are blaming it on – Recovery! Now of course its not Recovery that has made their jobs intolerable. That’s just the word that they see and blame for the changes they have been subjected to [Melody, Wired In]
Just wanted to share with you all something that happened today. The RCRC singing group based at SHARP Liverpool went on the first leg of its UK Tour of rehabs! We started today at Oaktrees Treatment Centre in Gateshead. We are aiming to visit 6 other rehabs around the country in the next 12 months or so [Jac, Wired In]
Don’t tell me I have a choice because I know damn well I have a choice. A choice to be happy or sad, to stay ‘stuck’ or move on and actually, at this moment in time I want to be sad, and I want to stay stuck in my misery and feel sorry for myself and feel sorry for Michael and to stay in the house and never return to work [Susan C, Wired In]
That’s if we got to see him. His lifestyle had a strong hold on him by now and, if he wasn’t addicted, he was a long way down that road [Keith F, Wired In]
I finished my step 4 and read it out last week. It was so hard. I hate going into my past, but hey, I’m so glad I did as it has revealed a number of things to me. Like I was mostly to blame for the things that I’ve done and the resentments I hold [Mark Burns, Wired In]
But something just snapped. I joined a service user group and it has totally changed my life. I now have something to do to engage my brain. I have found something that makes me just as high as heroin but naturally. I am not religious but prayed for the day for me to see the sky, not just the clouds [Haylz, Wired In]
In response to Carl’s concerns regarding the future of SMART Recovery in the UK, Tom Hovarth, President of SMART Recovery, updates us on where things stand. “We need to increase the availability of SMART Recovery meetings for everyone, and to use all reasonable means to do so” [Tom Horvath, Wired In]
I was looking at a photo of Michael today and just can’t believe we won’t talk anymore. It is difficult to come to terms with. It’s as if he has been forgotten, as if he never was and life goes on. I do want my life to go on but sometimes I sit here and think – wow did that really happen, did Michael really exist? [Susan C, Wired In]
I made a start on a close reading of the Welsh Assembly consultation paper on Integrated Care Pathways. To say that it’s dry reading would be an enormous understatement, and it’s only because I have some experience of reading and digesting official documents, that someone with my background has managed to hack my way through it so far [Gareth Joseph, Wired In]
On June 10th we will be holding the second all Wales service user conference in Wrexham. This years event is once again funded by the Welsh assembly and the service user conference planning group is formed by one representative from each of the seven health trusts in Wales [John Mills, Wired In]
This DrugScope document was published last week following a similar look at adult treatment last year… The word recovery is mentioned in this paper only three times. All in the same paragraph on page 30. That’s out of 65 pages. From a recovery perspective, it’s worse than the Cross Government Drugs Research Strategy and that was dire [Peapod, Wired In]
Way back in the early 90’s there were several attempts to prove that cannabis couldn’t actually be illegal, that the law was not only “immoral in principal and unworkable in practice” as the famous 1967 petition in the Times put it but was actually in and of itself illegal [UKCIA, UK]
