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Scotland is a place renowned for not sitting on its laurels for very long. And under new direction, the Scottish Recovery Consortium is amassing laurels as we speak. In a collaboration with our very own Wired In, a Recovery College has been created and is taking place between 18th May – 27th May 2012.
About four weeks ago I locked myself out of my flat, I rang the housing and a bloke turned up and opened the door with kind of burglary equipment he was licensed to carry. The charge for this service (that took him approximately 20 seconds) was £36.00. About two weeks ago I did it again, I’d rushed out to the shop and left my keys.
Has any one here gone through a home britloflex detox? I would love to hear from anyone who has gone through with it, what it was like etc. I am currently on 26mls of methadone and I have been offered this detox.
I was sober for 5 years after a very long period of drinking vodka for many years, and spending 6 weeks in hospital in a very bad way. About nine weeks ago I was at a wedding and feeling rather low (I also suffer from depression). I thought, sod this, and went to the bar and ordered a double neat vodka. Thinking it would be OK to just have the one.
In January last year our daughter came home asking for help to deal with her alcohol problem. She had no money so we were obliged to buy alcohol for her while waiting for the DAT to agree to treatment. Obviously we didn’t want to give her more alcohol than she needed, but at the same time we didn’t want to cut her intake down so fast that she was sick.
We visited Cactus, a community treatment centre which is based in the centre of Paisley. Easily accessible, the centre is responsible for people entering treatment and has a wide ranging remit to support individuals in their journey of recovery.
I’m tapering down off the valium but a little worried about the twitches starting again. I am on 2mg. The thing is, I can handle the twitches, just not peoples’ reactions to them ‘haha he’s got tourettes. Grrrrrr, powerless! I’m on 40ml methadone – starting to reduce Tuesday. Happy days! Getting daily counselling from 12 stepper and always ‘simply trusting’.
Went to visit the fantastic guys who make up the T.R.A.P.P.E.D peer-led group over at Trafford last Friday, to deliver a workshop on our Parents in Recovery work in Salford. Great to see so many there, some were Parents in Recovery themselves, some in Recovery and others workers from the area.
This is memory of a time in my life when I was unknowingly groomed. This is particularly prominent and confusing to me, as although I had already been abused and groomed in the past, it had happened when I was a lot younger.
In 1998 I was put onto an injectable methadone script, which may have saved my “existence” at the time – I certainly was convinced it was the only thing keeping me alive….for 14 years. “I used to have loads of problems and, now, I’ve only got one.”
“Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
- Anonymous
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.
It allowed that little bit of self belief back in me that I could overcome anything as long as I remained rational http://t.co/00KZaP94
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Most of all I see myself as a role model for other people who come to the Basement Project. I want to help others the way that I have been helped. I don’t want to let anyone down any more – myself, my family and all those who have helped me at the Basement Project.
Understanding the nature of addiction, and shaping the delivery of treatment (Part 2)
Despite the fact that addiction is a chronic disorder, it has been treated in an essentially acute care model of treatment… Importantly, the acute care model sets the field up to fail.
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How do i stop my Drug Addiction?
17/05/2012 @09:42 am
Mental As Anything with "The Nips Are Getting Bigger"
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Getting in the Driver’s Seat of Your Treatment: Preparing for Your Plan
Within your mental health and/or addictions treatment, a “recovery plan”, sometimes called a treatment plan or service plan, is the document that you create with your team to help plan how you want to move forward towards your goals [Yale University, USA]
Patient Opinion and Wired In ask YOU to help shape the future, by providing feedback on your treatment and recovery experiences.
Read what others have shared and how this is making a difference.
