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What is ‘Surrender’ in Addiction Recovery?
Surrendering is essentially letting go – a vital part of the process of addiction recovery. Letting go of resistance and submitting to an entity and their authority or ideas. Letting…
Prescription Drugs Addiction is Rising in the UK
Over the Counter (OTC) drugs – facts, signs, effects There are indications that addiction to prescription drugs, available over-the-counter(OTC), is increasing in the UK. Private clinics have reported a surge…
Is Stigma Preventing you from Addiction Recovery?
The Health Risks of COVID-19 and Detox Services We are currently living in unusual circumstances. The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting us while we learn to adapt to a new way…
DSM-5 and Addiction Treatment
If you’re working in the area of mental health, including addiction treatment – or if you’re in recovery from addiction yourself – you’ve most heard of the DSM-V (also referred…
Record Number of Rehabs are Closing in the UK
However, addiction treatment is available at home Rehab centres are a vital part of our social service. Addiction treatment is critical for those afflicted by addiction, as their illness has…
Keep it Simple
I have often wondered if addicts are complicated people, or people who like to make things complicated? I know that when I ask myself this question, I find that it…
Shame and regret
Learning from our past and letting go of shame Regret can be transformed into a learning opportunity. If you attend a 12-step meeting, you are sure to hear individuals freely…
The Benefits of Self-Care
Simple ways to build resilience while adapting to the new normal During the past three months, I have had a recurring dream – or should I say nightmare – some…
Self-Centeredness: You Are Not the Solution to Your Addiction
Find Freedom in Purpose The Selfish Core of Addiction Self-centeredness has been widely touted as one of the main characteristics of individuals who are living with addictions. This claim is…
Therapy Helps to Overcome Addiction Treatment
Like almost everywhere else, addiction is widespread in the UK. It occurs in every stratum of the community. Addiction is not limited to the abuse of illegal substances such as…
Why Choose a Home Detox?
Over the last ten years, alcohol and drug-related deaths in the UK have steadily been on the rise. Currently, figures relating to deaths as a result of drug usage are…
Addicts are not criminals
Are Addicts Criminals? Despite all the awareness about addiction being a ‘disease’, there is an undeniable stigma attached to alcoholics and drug addicts. Addicts and alcoholics are not just viewed…
How I got in and out of the pit of alcoholism
I loved life as a child, I was the youngest of 4, and with 3 older brothers, I was the only girl my parents had. My dad and I had…
Now I Have Choices
I was born into a regular family and always felt that my real troubles did not start until high school. I found it hard to fit in and was bullied,…
Recovery Capital
What is Recovery Capital? Every so often there is a buzzword that is attached to recovery, ‘Recovery Capital’ is one of those. However, unlike other buzzwords that seem to serve…
Free Yourself from Regret
6 Sure-Shot Steps To Turn Negative Emotions Into Positive Action We have all felt sometimes that life would have been better if we had taken a different path. If only…
Harm Reduction or Abstinence – which is better in Addiction Treatment?
Primarily, there are two addiction treatment strategies available for drug addicts and alcoholics – harm reduction and abstinence. Proponents of both these methods claim high success rates by quoting medical…
Lessons Learnt in Recovery from Addiction
In an active Addiction, many of us caused significant harms. The lies and broken promises meant we often hurt others when their only crime was to love us. Those who…
How to Achieve Happiness with Acceptance
Most of us fail to see reality. We see things as we believe them to be, or wish them to be. Examples are all around us. Whether it’s religious beliefs,…
What’s your purpose in life?
We are all born and start our journey in life towards inexorable and inevitable termination. The years between birth and death is the period we have goals with or without…
From Pride to Humility
One of the main characteristics of an alcoholic or addict is his self-centeredness. He or she is full of pride, though there may be little he can be proud of….
Life is a terminal disease
Life is full of change. Ever-changing, never still. Change is the only constant. Youth comes and goes; beauty and pleasure are transitory. The sun, nature, matter – all are in…
My journey into meditation
Ways to develop, practise and reasons to be patient. Meditation and I have never gone hand in hand. I’ve often been closed-minded and reluctant to build it into my daily…
My Journey from Addiction to Recovery
Sometime in July 2011, I attended my first Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting. Up until that point I had always claimed I could get clean whenever I wanted, just as long…
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…