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David's Latest Blog Posts

Is Medication Assisted Treatment like the Hotel California?: David McCartney (August 12, 2022)
My Interview with Huseyin Djemil for his ‘Journeys’ Podcast (July 18, 2022)
‘Addiction treatment mismatch: when what’s on offer isn’t always what’s wanted’ by David McCartney (July 13, 2022)
Fighting stigma and discrimination when recovering from problem drug use (July 12, 2022)
Revised ‘Steps to Reintegration’ Model by Julian Buchanan (July 11, 2022)
The everyday lives of recovering drug users (June 21, 2022)
The New ‘William White Papers’ Website (June 7, 2022)
‘Out of the dark into the light: The beginning of the recovery journey’ by Rosie (May 30, 2022)
‘Tackling Problem Drug Use: A New Conceptual Framework’ by Julian Buchanan, Part 3 (May 18, 2022)
‘Tackling Problem Drug Use: A New Conceptual Framework’ by Julian Buchanan, Part 2 (May 16, 2022)
‘Tackling Problem Drug Use: A New Conceptual Framework’ by Julian Buchanan, Part 1 (May 13, 2022)
‘It doesn’t work for everyone’—a take on 12-step approaches, by DJMac (April 18, 2022)
Reflections on the Lessons of History: Bill White (April 14, 2022)
Michael’s 44th Sober Anniversary, and an Update (April 10, 2022)
Kevan Martin’s Birthday and Story Update (April 9, 2022)

Random Content Selection

Random Story

Simon’s Recovery Story: ‘Gratitude For the Life I Thought Was Over…’

Simon’s first 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. (8,845 words)

Random Article

Journeys Into and Out of Heroin Addiction, Part 2

Focuses on living with addiction and covers such topics as relationships, changes in personality and lifestyle, hustling, crime and prison, impact on health, and treatment (5,900 words).

Random Film

How Childhood Trauma Can Make You A Sick Adult | Big Think | Big Think

Dr. Vincent Felitti, the co-founder of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, details the connection between childhood trauma and negative health outcomes in adulthood. Big Think. [7’15”]

Random Resource

Beth Burgess Recovery Guide

A series of six short films on key issues by Recovery Coach, NLP practitioner & recoveree Beth Burgess. You can read Beth’s Recovery Story on this website, and find many more of Beth’s film clips on her YouTube channel.

Random Healing

How Trauma Flows Through the Generations

‘Our first generations were killed and imprisoned, and females sexually misused. Our second generations turned to alcohol or drugs as their cultural and spiritual identity was damaged; in our third generations we had spousal assault and societal trauma. In our fourth generations the abuse moves from spousal abuse to child abuse or both. In the […]