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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Concordat Graduates Launch their own Website
Addictions UK welcomes the launch of the Concordat Graduates website. The Concordat Graduates are a group of people in recovery that have benefitted from various rehab projects both here in…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Letter to the Daily Telegraph (published 25 June 2011)
Addictions UK and others representing leading voluntary and private sector abstinence-based rehabilitation centres in England have written to the Daily Telegraph. Helping addicts quit SIR – We represent leading voluntary…
Why do I need to carry on working on recovery?
Some people have asked me in the past, after six years in recovery, so why do you carrying on working a 12 step programme? First and foremost I continue to…
Can you cure addiction alone?
As a recovering alcoholic, married to a recovering alcoholic, also the daughter of alcoholics I don’t believe that alcoholism/addiction can be cured alone. We all need help especially with issues…
Multiple Addictions – Can you name them all?
Did you know that there are 188+ (and growing) addictions served by the ‘Anonymous Community’? Addictions UK can claim experience of about twenty or so addictions on top of this…
Home Detox Programme
Many people would prefer to be treated at home for any illness and we know that this is particularly true of people…