Author: Addictions UK

Are you an Alcoholic?

The 4 question CAGE Test is a quick guide to whether your drinking has become a problem. The amount you are drinking falls somewhere on a very wide spectrum which…

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Addiction Risks in the Holidays

Do the Christmas and New Year Holidays present the most risk for relapse? Christmas and New Year present a great risk of relapse for people in recovery from addiction. Christmas…

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Facing Up To Addictions Recovery

Recovery at Home from Alcohol, Drug and other Addictions can work when Residential Rehab seems impossible. Finally accepting that you have an addiction is probably the best thing you can…

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Prescription Drug Addiction

Are you addicted to Prescription Drugs? – See our short Video Over a million people alone in the United Kingdom have a problem with addiction to drugs. The Medical profession…

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Saving Vital Rehabs

The Concordat Watchdog to expose poor commissioning. * We are grateful to Addiction Today for kind permission to reproduce this article. * WATCHDOG LAUNCHES TO SAVE VITAL REHABS REHABS PREPARE TO…

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Concordat Launches New Website

Share the news and make your views known about The Concordat of Recovery Agencies new website. The Concordat of Recovery Agencies has launched its website This will be improved over…

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Updates on your Facebook Page

Get an alert on your Facebook page every time we publish a new article in our Blog. Please note that this new feature is currently under development. We will publish…

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BACP Accreditation

Our Head of Casework gains accreditation from the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy Addictions Treatment staff members at Addictions UK Home-based Addictions Treatment are all qualified counsellors having gained…

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Rehab Conference

Successful Training Conference in West Midlands For the first time in the UK, Dr. Cardwell C. Nuckols , MA, Ph.D. has addressed a 3 day conference speaking on a wide…

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Elderly Addicts

More evidence on “invisible addicts” – The Elderly. The First Report of the Older Persons’ Substance Misuse Working Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Report CR165 was published in…

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Concordat Graduates Move Into Action

Former service users from UK rehab projects launch their own Social Networking website. A group of former service users from rehab projects around the United Kingdom have formed themselves into…

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Dying for a Drink – BBC Panorama

BBC Panorama focuses on those “Dying for a Drink” A recent BBC 1 documentary showed the problems of alcohol consumption in the UK, the health problems caused and the cost…

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Addiction is not a question of morality

Many people who seek treatment services for drug and alcohol addiction believe that their conduct is partly a matter of self-blame. Lack of self-control is perceived as being the main…

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UK Rehab Facilities Poorly Used

“The Independent” newspaper claims “Rehab Needs a Fix” and reports on the poor use by the Public Sector of Rehab Projects in the United Kingdom. According to “The Independent” newspaper,…

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Saving your Child

The death of Any Winehouse has highlighted the danger of alcohol and drug addiction and the fact that this is a family illness. It affects all members of the family…

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Alcohol Pricing

An article in the Guardian discusses Minimum Pricing for Alcohol in Scotland Proposals to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol in Scotland have received much publicity and are the subject of…

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Welsh Health Survey

Welsh Health Survey: Analysis of the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Adults The latest National Statistics on the mental health and wellbeing of adults produced by the Welsh Government were…

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Recovery in Prison

Special units to help prisoners kick their drug addictions are launching in five prisons as part of the Government’s plans to reform sentencing. New drug recovery wings will be piloted…

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Betty Ford

Addictions UK pays tribute to Betty Ford, founder of the Betty Ford Centre, who has died at the age of 93. Addictions UK pays tribute to Betty Ford, the widow…

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New CEO of eATA

Addictions UK welcomes the appointment of new Colin Wilkie-Jones as the new CEO of eATA (European Association of Treatment Agencies). It has been announced this week that Colin Wilkie-Jones has…

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Curious Comments

Have Civil Servants posted anti rehab comments onto the Addictions Today Website? A blog on the Addicitons Today Website has received adverse comments puporting to come from The National Treatment…

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PM Supports Treatment

Prime Minister condemns previous Drugs Policies in Parliament – 29 June 2011 Prime Minister David Cameron made this statement in Parliament on 29th June (Hansard 954): “Drugs policy has been…

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Text Messaging for Therapy

Addictions UK leads the way in offering Text Messaging as an important part of Addictions Recovery Therapy. Supportive text messages can double the chance of someone successfully quitting smoking, according…

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Spiritual Recovery

Maintaining Recovery is an on-going day-by-day task for all of us – especially those people who are in recovery from Addictions. A new service has been launched by Addictions UK…

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