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David's Latest Blog Posts
- New Recovery Voices: Tim Leighton & Gary Rutherford (April 15, 2024)
- My Forthcoming UK Trip (April 11, 2024)
- My Journey: From Brain Chemicals to Human Connection (March 2, 2024)
- Ten Most Viewed Posts, 2023 (December 31, 2023)
- Reflections on, and Quotes from, Noreen Oliver MBE (RIP) (December 30, 2023)
- An Extraordinary Recovery Champion: Noreen Oliver RIP (December 20, 2023)
- My Apologies (December 20, 2023)
- Recovery Voices: Our First Two Weeks (October 9, 2023)
- The Recovery Walk in Hull 2023: Carl’s Story (October 2, 2023)
- Huseyin Djemil, Part 2 (September 26, 2023)
- Recovery Voices Launched Today (September 25, 2023)
- Apology and What’s Coming Next Month (August 13, 2023)
- Powerlessness: Wendy Dossett (August 1, 2023)
- Inspired by Natalie’s Story (July 31, 2023)
- Gifts of Knowledge That Recovering People Can Bestow: Bill White (July 29, 2023)
- An Exciting 24 Hours, Recovery-Wise (July 28, 2023)
- My Second Recovery Voices Interview With Wulf Livingston (July 27, 2023)
- My Second Interview With James Deakin of North Wales Recovery Communities (July 11, 2023)
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Random Story
Simon’s Recovery Story: ‘Gratitude For the Life I Thought Was Over…’
Simon’s first Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting was pivotal, not just in helping him turn his life around, but also in setting him up to make future significant contributions to NA both in the UK and abroad. (8,853 words)
Random Article
Self-Change and Recovery Capital
Robert Granfield and William Cloud’s research provides important insights into how many people overcome substance use problems without accessing treatment. They stress the importance of recovery capital in the process of recovery from addiction. (1,920 words)
Random Film
It Takes a Village to Recover From Drug Addiction: Charlotte Colman (TEDxGhent)
“Once an addict, always an addict”? Most addicted drug users do recover, but it takes time. We know that recovery results from an interplay between individual and social factors such as personal motivation or meeting the (wo)man of your dreams. But that’s not enough. After all, there’s a huge difference between wanting to change and […]
Random Resource
Peer Support Groups
This page provides links to the home pages of a number of key peer support groups, e.g. AA, SMART Recovery. Learn why peer support is important.
Random Healing
Judy Atkinson: Reflecting on Historical Trauma and its Consequences
“I can talk for ever on this. I have been standing up and talking about this for 25 years. In Queensland, out at the Cape communities, in the Kimberleys, through the Territory, in South Australia, in New South Wales. Transgenerational trauma … it’s like nobody wants to hear.”
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