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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
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...
In the loop
Build On Belief is a LERO offering out-of-hours social connection support across London, Sussex and Buckinghamshire. Of course, when COVID hit in March 2020...
Teenage drinking and drug use down across Europe
Teenage drinking, smoking and cannabis use are continuing to decline across Europe, according to the latest findings of the European school survey project on...
Back in the saddle
When 12-year-old Lyra came to Turning Point’s Somerset Drug and Alcohol Service (SDAS), she was dealing with trauma that came from being a part...
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...
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
Phoenix Futures residential services
With over 50 years of experience delivering residential rehabilitation in the UK, Phoenix Futures are dedicated to helping people, families and communities overcome substance...
Aspinden Care Home: a realistic pathway to recovery
THE CASE FOR ALCOHOL HARM REDUCTION
For individuals with alcohol dependency, recovery can feel like an endless cycle of setbacks. While abstinence based programmes work...
Birchwood @ Kaleidoscope House: a beautiful place to recover
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Birchwood @ Kaleidoscope House is a purpose-built facility set in over nine acres of beautiful grounds at Heswall, Wirral, designed to provide the...