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Hazelden Publishing partners with international recovery advocate

Hazelden Publishing has announced a partnership with the addiction recovery organisation DB Recovery Resources (dba DB Recovery+). The new partnership will provide greater awareness...

Which comes first? Sex or drugs?

PDF:  Concurrent sex and drugs - Paula Hall Rock and Roll may have gone out of fashion, but it doesn’t look like sex and drugs ever...

Join us at DB Recovery+ Ukesad, 26+27 June 2023

  A conference/training by people in recovery for people in recovery and anyone affected by addiction: therapists, politicians, researchers, educators, social/healthcare workers, families. Click here to join our delegates WORLDCLASS EXPERTS,...

Addicts need support

PDF: Addicts need support - Prof Colin Drummond With the Royal Family's Heads Together campaign, the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Changing Minds, the Sunday Express Crusade...

Therapists: Get over yourself

PDF version: Recovery Plus Autumn 2017 - therapist relationship I recall, in my days in training in the mid 1970s, how much I wanted to be...

Help stop self-inflicted deaths

PDF: RecoveryPlus Nov 2017- Suicide prevention Suicide is a global phenomenon. According to the World Health Organisation, about 800,000 people die by suicide every year: one...

How families can deal with addiction

PDF: Recovery Plus Autumn 2017 - How families can deal with addiction We are nations in crisis. There is hardly a family that has not been...

Treatment of drug use disorders

PDF: RecoveryPlus Nov 2017 - Treatment of drug use disorders Europe faces increasingly diverse and complex drug problems – as does the US and elsewhere. Heroin...

Manipulators and compassionate people

PDF: RecoveryPlus Nov 2017 - Manipulators & empathic people Related article: The Empathy Trap by Tim & Jane McGregor One of the most life-empowering principles in my...

Tackling traumatic aftermath of combat

Read PDF: Recovery Plus - Combat stress Being a 31-year-old veteran with diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder makes my life pretty... interesting. I...