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David's Latest Blog Posts

The Culture of Addiction: Part 1 (March 24, 2023)
A Touching Farewell to Brad Miah-Phillips (March 23, 2023)
‘The need to be honest, willing and open-minded’ by Rosie (March 22, 2023)
The Four Walls: Mark Ragins (March 21, 2023)
My Journey: 5. Drug and Alcohol Treatment Fund (DATF) Evaluation (March 20, 2023)
Huseyin Djemil’s ‘Towards Recovery’ Blog Series (March 17, 2023)
Recovering People and Their Stories: ‘Journeys’ Podcast with David Clark and Huseyin Djemil (Part 9) (March 16, 2023)
The Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) (March 15, 2023)
A Rendezvous With Hope: Bill White (March 14, 2023)
My Journey: 4. Learning About Addiction Treatment – WGCADA Stories (March 13, 2023)
Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong: Johann Hari (March 11, 2023)
Check Out Our Trauma and Healing Resources (March 10, 2023)
A Recovery Community History: CCAR, The First Twenty Years (March 9, 2023)
Bill White on Stigma and the Recovery Advocacy Movement (March 8, 2023)
Ellie’s Recovery Story, ‘Come With Me’: I Am Not Anonymous (March 7, 2023)

Random Content Selection

Random Story

Beth’s Recovery Story: ‘Becoming Beth’

A fullly-fledged dependent drinker by age nineteen, Beth has gone on to become a recovery coach and writer in order to help other people escape from addiction. (9,230 words)

Random Article

It’s Not Just About the Drug

The effects of a drug depend on an interaction between drug, person (set) and social context (setting). These three factors also influence the likelihood of addiction and recovery from addiction (2,662 words).

Random Film

Rehabilitation @ The BAC O’Connor Centre. Women of Courage: UK TV

This is a short documentary which was aired on ‘This Morning’ (UK) on 2nd July 2007. Noreen Oliver shares her journey from being alcohol dependent to recovery and talks about the BAC O’Connor Centre in East Staffordshire, the successful treatment centre she set up to change individuals lives in a positive way, where they receive […]

Random Resource

Mad in America

‘Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad). We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society, and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for […]

Random Healing

12 Principles of Indigenous Healing

When I first developed the educational healing resource Sharing Culture, I did a great deal of reading about the healing of trauma and historical trauma. I summarised what I considered to be 12 principles of healing, which are relevant to Aboriginal people here in Australia and other Indigenous peoples around the world. I have decided […]