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DDN Conference 2025: Bright Sparks!
The DDN Conference is over for another year – huge thanks to all of this year’s visitors, speakers, exhibitors and sponsors. Take a look...
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Turning Point Hammersmith and Fulham has successfully achieved micro-elimination of Hepatitis...
Leading social enterprise Turning Point has proudly announced that its Hammersmith and Fulham drug and substance use service has successfully achieved micro-elimination of Hepatitis...
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...
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Thousands with undiagnosed hepatitis and HIV found in A&E testing
Thousands of people living with undiagnosed HIV and hepatitis C and B have been found through NHS England’s opt-out emergency department testing, according to...
Rising together
For those of us in recovery, climbing mountains has become more than a physical adventure – it’s a way of life. It reflects our...
Early signs of changes to Scotland’s street benzo market, warns PHS
There are ‘early signs of new changes’ in the street benzo market in Scotland, says the latest Rapid Action Drug Alerts and Response (RADAR)...
More than 1,200 public health professionals urge ‘swift’ action on smoking...
An open letter signed by more than 1,200 public health directors, doctors, academics and others is urging politicians to ensure the ‘swift passage’ of the...
Getting proactive
Non-opiate pathways are now a core part of how many drug and alcohol services operate, reflecting the reality that service users present with a...
Alcohol industry ‘lobbied right up to the wire’ on ten-year health...
Lobbying by the alcohol industry was taking place ‘right up to the wire’ before the publication of the government’s ten-year health plan for England...
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
Abbeycare: tailoring recovery and support to each individual’s needs
Overcoming dependence on alcohol or drugs usually requires finding professional help, particularly for people who have a longer-term relationship with substances or those who...
Broadway Lodge: transforming lives
Proudly treating addiction & transforming lives for over 50 years
Broadway Lodge is one of the leading and most respected abstinence-based addiction treatment centres in...
Park House: supporting recovery in Birmingham
Located in Birmingham and operated by Change Grow Live, Park House offers an inpatient drug and alcohol detox. With a focus on collaborative working,...