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Thought you may well be interested in a new development. Just after New Year a group of us met (see below), and as a result of this meeting formed National Recovery Advocates. We will be meeting again in early February when we will have more information but we wanted to give you some background at this early stage.
We’d like to be able to demonstrate to future ‘recoverees’ a way to follow on from training to be able to fully utilise our new found confidence and self belief. I don’t expect us to all be drug workers, but I’m sure we can be of active use in services somewhere directly related to our experience.
I often joke in AA about the massive powerhouse all our members could be if we got busy. We were all so determined to stay drinking that our willpower in this regard was enormous, our drive to achieve getting plastered, or ingenuity in hiding it, our strength in pushing through and making it to the shop for one more drink when we could barely walk – all these things were incredible.
Recovery Is Out There – new film from RIOT….
Tomorrow my son will have been dead for two years. Two years ago he was preparing to die – not consciously or even unconsciously. Michael never set out to die or directly take his own life it was just a series of events that led to his death.
About 4/5 months ago, a lady called Sarah moved to this area. I befriended her straight away and we got on really well, had lots in common – not just in addiction but life in general. She was stable on 40ml of meth and had settled into fine. She was bubbly and full of life. I was very contagious and lovely to be around. We became quite close.
I have not blogged, or posted much of anything anywhere for a while as I have some health issues that are quite serious, and are making me feel really down, worrying over my future. So, feeling very sorry for myself, I decided to give to other people.
One thing that has really angered me is the state my brother has got himself into. Last week, the hospital called my mum to tell her my brother was in a isolation ward, with TB of all things! It seems they were not being entirely upfront with her on the phone. Once we arrived at hospital, the full extent of the damage his addiction had caused become apparent.
The one thing I have instilled in my mind is that worrying, stressing and sitting in the pain will not get me nowhere. Or solve anything at that. So I plod on and get on with things. And that peeps, is what life and recovery is all about.
I’ve just been and done my Step Three with my sponsor and it’s got to be the weirdest thing I have experienced to date. I was, before, going a bit off NA but tonight has changed that. The one thing I don’t like about NA is the sharing in the groups. I am a person who has big fears over this stuff and I some times feel pressured to share – but mostly by myself.
“Nature always takes her time. Great oaks don’t become great overnight. They also lose a lot of leaves, branches and bark in the process of becoming great
- Andrew Matthews - submitted by Phil Hughes
Wired In was developed as a way of empowering people to tackle drug and alcohol use problems.
With this online community, Wired In aims to provide an environment of opportunity, choice and hope, to enable individuals and families to find their path to recovery from substance use problems.
We want to bring people together with the common purpose of helping themselves and others, and making sure that society is more understanding of and helpful towards people affected by substance use problems.
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The Role of Partnership in Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care: The Philadelphia Experience
Considerable effort is underway in the United States to transform behavioral health care toward the goal of supporting the long-term recovery of individuals and families. Achieving this goal requires new organizational partnerships, refined strategies of collaboration, fresh approaches to policy and clinical decision-making, and a fundamental restructuring of relationships throughout the system of care [IRETA, USA]
