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Spent the night with Stuart, Tamsin and their young boys in the country. A real pleasure to spend an evening with such lovely, kind people. I am so lucky being in the recovery field, meeting and interacting with such good friends. And I also got well and truly entertained by Mark Gilman, who is a scream [David Clark Blog, WIred In]
As strange as this may sound, joining this site has made a huge impact on my life. I don’t know if it is the fact I am able to talk openly about things that have been unsaid before, or the encouraging words of wisdom that I have heard? [Claire Blog, WIred In]
I just want to scream… I feel like crying but I am holding it in as my hubby would go off the edge. Thanks for your comments, this is what I need to really get me to think about this situation. I wish I had you all beside me years ago [Linda Blog, Wired In]
You see externals were not the answer to my problem. Like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, I was still going down as I frantically scrambled to gain control. I needed an inside job and found that (eventually and after much pain) through residential treatment [Peapod Blog, WIred In]
I was talking with a colleague last Friday about people who seem to be able to get a few months of clean time in before going back to using or drinking. I have known a number of people do this. They often say that after a few months of abstinence they realise that their drink and drug use is self-medication of a mental health problem [Mark Gilman, Blog, Wired In]
I would like to inform you of the launch of the Irish Needle Exchange Forum, Ireland’s first dedicated online resource for those working in the field on needle exchange services, those using the services, and those with an interest in the subject [Tim Bingham Blog, Wired In]
Spent the night with Stuart, Tamsin and their young boys in the country. A real pleasure to spend an evening with such lovely, kind people. I am so lucky being in the recovery field, meeting and interacting with such good friends. And I also got well and truly entertained by Mark Gilman, who is a scream [David Clark Blog, Wired In]
But I can’t complain as I’ve completely lost the urge to use smack these days so I guess that still being on the meth script is a tiny price to pay. Its funny really, I didn’t even have to work at it – I just sort of lost the taste for heroin [Bella Blog, Wired In]
In my last entry, Why I Write, some of you may have noticed that the question wasn’t answered. Or rather it was answered many times over and pretty vaguely at that. By way of apology let me rephrase the question, from why I write, to the more intriguing question in this exhibitionistic age, why I keep a blog [GuyInGho Blog, Wired In]
Unfortunately, most people perceive recovery in this manner so give up before trying – they wrongly believe that even if they become clean they will not get a job, girlfriend, home, etc and prosper… If they could only change the glasses they are wearing from mud tinted to clear.. [MichaelF Blog, Wired In]
The welfare reform bill will, for the first time, introduce benefit rules specifically for problem drug and alcohol users – but it could extend to claimants with mental health problems [Martin Barnes Blog, Guardian, UK]
The Sentencing Advisory Panel (sap) has published a consultation paper relating to the sentencing of the most commonly committed drug offences – deadline for submissions is 15th July [Transform Blog, UK]
I like the new look too. I was curious about why some folk protested links to service user and professional op-ed pieces. There are plenty of precedents for this in quality newspapers and I always thought DD benefitted from that content. So welcome back to that too [David McCartney Blog, Wired In]
One of the reasons that is often cited for the lack of referrals from the Tier 3 NHS services to abstinence oriented recovery is that this is very dangerous as there is a real risk that people who enter abstinence oriented recovery relapse and die. One of the counter arguments is that people who drink alcoholically on top of their methadone die from liver disease etc {Mark Gilman Blog, Wired In}
So while the government is happy to spend taxpayers millions on adolescent treatment and youth services which do not attempt to stop them abusing themselves (I have been told by more than one young people’s services’ teams that “you can’t get them off drugs”), Middlegate is about to join the 18 adult residential rehabilitation units who, because of lack of referrals, have been forced to close [Centre for Policy Studies, UK]
With so much happening in our lives that is beyond personal control, I am grateful for the freedom to choose what I pay attention to and to select how I describe it. And I am particularly grateful that you have lent me your attention by reading this blog [GuyinGHo Blog, Wired In]
It’s my opinion that we need fewer addiction specialists and more recovery specialists. That probably means more of us recovering people being around treatment services. We’ve shown we know how to do it [Peapod Blog, Wired In]
I am not hopeful that we will suddenly see a rise in abstinence-based or focused services, mainly because I have a wide and varied network of both service managers and workers who I am in contact regularly and they simply do not know how to switch from what they have been doing for the last 20 years [Annemarie Ward Blog, Wired In]
