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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.
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.
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.
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’.
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.”
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.
If you’d have asked me at the time why I started taking drugs, I’d have said either, a) I like them, or b) everyone else is doing it. Looking back on it though, I think that as a child I never felt like I really fitted in anywhere. I had as many friends as anyone else, but I always felt a bit on the outside…
“Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
- Marian Wright Edelman
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 is indeed my personal experience that a critical factor of success in recovery is that there is joy on this path http://t.co/1SkGrRgA
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Who would have thought I would be going to uni? I have a life and it is a good life and I would like to see this opportunity for others, just like me, to be given a chance.
Mark talks about his experiences with methadone
I honestly don’t know where I would be if it wasn’t for methadone. But… five years on, I am addicted to methadone. I don’t want to be on it, yet I am scared of living without it.
Senior Peer Mentor to Volunteer
18/05/2012 @08:27 am
Just discovered my recovery tune.
17/05/2012 @09:28 pm
hello my name is jackie
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Counselor motivational interviewing skills and young adult change talk articulation during brief…
In this study of Swiss army recruits, reflective listening emerged as possibly the key active ingredient in a brief alcohol intervention based on motivational interviewing [Findings, UK]
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