Responsibility for one’s actions, thoughts, and feelings is a nightmare for addicts. I was an addict. I spent 10 years in a cocaine and alcohol-fueled downward spiral which consumed who I was and spat out an alien creature I did not know, could not understand. In rehab I was told it was my “disease” which [...]
As an organisation, the British Association of Anger Management has counselled many people when anger has been affecting their lives. When working with individuals who have had addiction in their lives, we have found that, after the initial rehabilitation process, feelings and emotions come to the surface. If left unaddressed they have the potential to [...]
What plans do the Home Office and other important Departments of State like Health and Work and Pensions have to ensure the active involvement of the Private Sector in the implementation of its policy? The reasons for our questions stem from the fact that there is little if any, involvement of private sector organisations in [...]
US charity Project Prevention have paid a 38 year old British man to have a vasectomy, as part of a project to stop drug addicts from having children. Simon Stephens from AddictionsUK speaks to BBC Tees on the controversy this has caused.
Most of the time, Intervention is something that a family considers only when a crisis occurs. Our loved one ends up in jail, overdoses, or causes major wreckage and THEN the family decides that it is time to do an intervention. An addiction intervention is a carefully controlled process where a trained professional sets up [...]
Picture a summers evening, warm & peaceful. You’re sitting in a pub garden and in front of you is a pint of golden liquid with a pure white froth on the top, perspiration beads run down the cold glass on a warm evening. You raise it to your lips, take a long drink and when [...]
As an “Anonymous” Member of Alcoholics Anonymous – and Narcotics Anonymous too – I am planning to join a group of other Recovering Addicts and Alcoholics on a “Learning Journey” to Southern India organised by Addictions India – a Social Enterprise based in Chennai (Tamil Nadu). I am really looking forward to joining other members [...]
Rising numbers of the over 50s contact Addictions UK for help with a variety of problems with alcohol dependency, and drug addiction. It is a common myth that elderly people grow out of drug addiction – many treatment centre clients have been using drugs (and alcohol) since their early teens. Elderly clients often confess that [...]
I began a twelve step programme with Addictions UK. I have daily sessions with my worker and have a 24 hour helpline I can use when I need. I have spent many years using drugs and alcohol and had come to the point of losing everything. My life was in a mess and all the [...]
My life coach was always there or would ring me back. I have lived a violent life and the coach understood this. My coach understood where I was coming from and helped me to make sense of it all. I am clean now. For ten months I had been clean nearly all the time but [...]
