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
Prologue
Describes the author’s story, and his development of the grassroots initiative Wired In; the eBook Our Recovery Stories; the nature of substance use problems; changing behaviour and recovery, and the nature of addiction treatment. (4,024 words)
Random Article
Factors That Facilitate Addiction Recovery
Recovery is something done by the person with the substance use problem, not by a treatment practitioner or anyone else. Whilst there are a multitude of pathways to recovery, there are a number of key factors that facilitate recovery from serious substance use problems. (9,586 words) *
Random Film
Bringing them home: separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families
This resource is based on ‘Bringing them home’ , the report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, and on the history of forcible separation and other policies which have impacted on the lives of Indigenous Australians. Australian Human Rights Commission. [32’29”]
Random Resource
Trauma and Healing
Links to 12 blog posts from The Carrolup Story website that I developed with John Stanton. These blog posts consider work by world-leading experts, including Gabor Maté, Vincent Felitti, Judith Herman, Bessel van Der Kolk, James Gordon and Judy Atkinson. Bruce Perry’s work is considered in another Resource.
Random Healing
Shocking History Impacts on the Health and Wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples
Professor Marion Kickett relates how she and the other Noongar children in York, Western Australia, were not allowed to swim in a particular area of the river. When she was fifteen, her father described how he and his friends were similarly told by their parents not to swim in that location. He also related the […]
















