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DDN Conference 2025: Bright Sparks!
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Tony Adams launches National Addiction Awareness Week: 23rd – 30th November...
The fifth annual Addiction Awareness Week will this year take place between 23rd – 30th November 2025.
This year, the UK’s leading addiction campaign...
One Room, Many VOICES
Guildford Action was bustling on Thursday 25th September with passionate and powerful voices. VOICES SUPPORT, a Lived Experience Recovery Organisation (LERO) in Surrey, held...
Appointment of new Social Interest Group CEO
We are pleased to announce an important leadership transition at Social Interest Group (SIG). On 13th October 2025, Mark Milton joined SIG as our...
Recent Posts
A lens for women
Women’s experiences with substance use are substantially different from men’s. They tend to have higher rates of childhood trauma, are far more likely to...
Deaths involving nitazenes quadruple in a year
There were 5,565 deaths related to drug poisoning registered in England and Wales in 2024, according to the latest ONS figures – up from...
Mental block
It’s no secret that the pathway to accessing residential treatment services can be challenging, particularly when it comes to substance use and complex mental...
Working it through
On 15 August, more than 85 employers, professionals, IPS employment specialists and people in recovery gathered at a church in Lincoln for a lively...
Rough justice
The number of women sleeping rough is estimated to be more than ten times greater than the official figures. What’s more, the measures women...
Breaking the silence
While group therapy sessions are an important part of treatment and recovery, they can be hugely intimidating – and counterproductive – for people with...
Your Story
‘I had a massive problem with alcohol. It nearly killed me’
A 46-year-old man from Ludlow whose struggle with alcohol nearly killed him has shared his life-saving story for Recovery Month, observed throughout September to...
‘I nearly died. I wish I’d known that there is a...
A 26-year-old man from Scunthorpe whose struggle with ketamine left him hospitalised with liver and kidney failure has shared his life-saving story for Recovery...
‘Alcohol is a silent killer. It can just take your life...
This Alcohol Awareness Week, Zoe, a previous client of Rotherham Alcohol and Drug Service (ROADS), provided by the charity WithYou, is speaking out about...
Rehab Spotlights
The Laurel Centre: the UK’s only dedicated residential course for sex...
The Laurel Centre provides support and treatment for sex and porn addiction through individual therapy, couples therapy, online treatment programmes, and the six-day Residential...
ESH Community addiction treatment centre
Our approach
ESH Community is a fully residential detox and rehab treatment facility for people aged 18 and over who have issues with alcohol and...
TLC Rehab: Truly Life Changing
TLC Rehab is a London-based residential service, offering medically managed detox and an eclectic approach to addiction treatment.
From heartfelt beginnings, TLC Rehab is redefining...