Michaela’s life reached a crossroads when her daughter was born two years ago. She loved her child, but a serious drug problem meant she was incapable of looking after her. Sam Hart on a specialist residential rehab unit for families that helps drug using…
Tag Archive for Recovery
Druglink article 2004 – A DTTO changed my life
How being put on a treatment and testing order led one drug using offender out of crime and addiction. A DTTO changed my life (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – The Knowledge by William Butler
The Substance Misuse Skills Consortium is a sector led initiative tasked with delivering ‘an inspirational, recovery-orientated workforce’. The Consortium’s chair, William Butler, describes how it came about and why it is vital that treatment providers now step up and demonstrate their support for its…
Druglink article 2011 – Culture shift by Joy Barlow
Joy Barlow on the impact of the recovery agenda on workforce development. The drug policy landscape and its focus on recovery, enshrined initially in the Scottish drug strategy in 2008 and then the UK strategy in 2010, required a sizeable shift in workforce development. For…
Druglink article 2011 – Peace pipes by Keith Humphreys
When Dr. Alan Leshner was Director of the US National Institute of Drug Abuse, he used to say that “when those of us in the treatment field feel threatened, we circle the wagons and then fire our guns inward”. Whether or not the UK recovery movement…
Druglink article 2011 – House on the hill: Victorian style by Virginia Berridge
Where were Victorians with drink or drug addictions sent to get help? Were they treated or punished? Virginia Berridge takes a look at rehab in the 19th century House on the hill: Victorian style (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – Rehab UK: full house or bleak house by Harry Shapiro
Back in the day, residential rehabs were pioneers in UK treatment provision and practice. However despite the recovery agenda, commissioning practice and the apparent failure of some rehabs to evolve mean further tough times ahead. Rehab UK: full house or bleak house (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – Housing crisis by Bill Puddicombe
Leaving drug treatment to begin a new life is a make or break period for many people trying to move away from addiction. But plans by some town halls to cut funding for Supporting People looks set to make this transition even harder.…
Druglink article 2003 – Creative thinking: painting and pruning for problem users by Lesley Don and Sam Hart
Recovering drug users are being offered therapeutic ways of breaking addictions. The authors explain how gardening and the creative arts can help. Creative thinking: painting and pruning for problem users (PDF)
Druglink article 2003 – Crack harm reduction doesn’t wash by Peter McDermott
I’ve yet to meet a crack user who feels that they ever made any improvement until they became abstinent. Crack harm reduction doesn’t wash (PDF)