UK Recovery Walk Manchester 2014

Congratulations to the organisers and all participants of the 6th UK Recovery Walk which took place in Manchester over the weekend. It’s wonderful to hear that over 8,000 people attended the Walk!

It’s fantastic to see all the happy faces in the film above.

Recovery is becoming contagious. Please check out the UK Recovery Walk website.

‘From the Rooms to the Streets’ by Bill White

Unknown-1‘Until recently, recovery from addiction was shrouded in public secrecy in the United States and in most other countries. Addiction has long been viewed as a personally and culturally intractable problem, and pessimism has reigned about the prospects of long-term addiction recovery.

These perceptions have been fed by the unrelenting public visibility of addiction-related problems, but the comparable invisibility of stable, long-term addiction recovery.

Historically, most people in recovery either completely eschewed recovery status (refused the addiction and recovery labels and culturally “passed”) or regularly cloistered themselves in “the rooms” of recovery mutual aid meetings before repeatedly and invisibly re-entering their civilian roles without acknowledgement of their recovery status.

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