Coaches, corporates and recovered lives
I am not an expert in the field of addiction recovery professionals. What I do I do well and believe passionately in is life...
Scientifically-informed recovery
Read PDF - click on PowerPoint logo in it for more research on effectiveness of mutual aid: Scientifically-informed recovery by Prof John Kelly
Over the past...
Measuring recovery
‘‘You’re all going to hate the word ‘recovery’ by the end of this’’: Service users’ views of measuring addiction recovery is a research paper...
Help parents to help the next generation
Parents are a wonderfully powerful influence in their teenager’s lives. The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence found that teens who learn about...
Is addiction really a disease?
Presentation by Dr Kevin McCauley, a non-practicing physician who has worked in the field of addiction treatment for two decades. Kevin is creator of the...
Advances in testing
Drug and alcohol testing has been a part of addiction and recovery for as long as I can remember. I started working in the...
Interventions: the historical perspective
In the 1900s, there were high mortality rates from what was then called alcoholism. In the 1930s, psychiatry defined uncontrolled drinking as an emotional/psychological...
Help children of alcoholics
Childhood memories of growing up with an alcoholic father prompted the shadow health secretary to call for greater recognition of the damage done by...
Brainwaves: music, addiction, trauma
How can music actively assist in the treatment of addiction and trauma? You might already have witnessed how a particular piece of music can...
Prevention: our next generation
Article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child says that “States Parties shall take all appropriate measures, including legislative, administrative, social...