The risks faced by children of drug users are well documented. But there is little help for single mothers who want to go into rehab without relinquishing control of their children. Sam Hart visits a south coast rehab unit specifically…
Tag Archive for Recovery
Druglink article 2004 – The 12 step model: it does what it says on the tin by Nick Barton
Going through the programme and conceptualising addiction as an illness has helped many people come off drugs. So, asks, Nick Barton, what difference does the labelling make? The 12 step model: it does what it says on the tin (PDF)
Druglink article 2010 – Let’s get physical by Joanne Neale, Sarah Nettleton and Lucy Pickering
Support for heroin users should include their basic physical needs. Moreover, say Joanne Neale, Sarah Nettleton and Lucy Pickering, caring for one’s body and good progress in recovery appear to be mutually reinforcing. Let’s get physical (PDF)
Druglink article 2010 – Use your head by Peter McDermott
Drug users in Britain now have a bigger say in how their treatment system works than most other parts of the world. But, says Peter McDermott, we are in danger of letting a decade of progress slip through our hands if politicians restrict the paths to recovery.…
Druglink article 2011 – A social contract by Richard Phillips
Treatment offers to get the dispossessed and addicted back into mainstream society, but for many this offer simply lacks credibility. Richard Phillips on how the recovery movement can offer people a tangible route out of addiction. A social contract (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – Word of mouth by Alistair Sinclair
An expanding network of current and former problem drug users will energise the recovery movement in the UK and create social entrepreneurs. Recently, in Drink and Drug News, I questioned whether we’d reached the point where we could reasonably claim there was a recovery movement…
Druglink article 2011 – Housing for recovery by Marcus Roberts
Findings from a survey on access to housing on behalf of the Recovery Partnership Nobody seriously questions the importance of housing for successful engagement with drug and alcohol treatment and for recovery. The Drug Strategy 2010 explains that housing, with appropriate support, contributes to engagement and retention…
Druglink article 2011 – Founding fathers by Mike Gilman
The inspiration for the rising recovery movement in Britain has come from four Americans. Mark Gilman on the influence of Simpson, De Leon, White and McKnight. Founding fathers (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – Land of the free by Marcus Roberts
Marcus Roberts discusses recent debates about ‘recovery’ in mental health, and asks whether too much consensus could be at odds with the concept’s transformative potential and radical roots. Land of the free (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – Love conquers hate by Harry Shapiro
One woman’s struggle to come in from a cocaine blizzard to the shelter of recovery. On a day to day basis, Grace was brought up by her grandmother; her mother was out working and she never knew her dad as a child. But her experiences…