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More support for children of alcohol-dependent parents
[…] Care (DHSC) and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Among other measures announced are increased outreach provision to help improve take-up of alcohol treatment, faster access to mental health and other support services for children of dependent drinkers, and early intervention programmes to reduce the number of children taken into care. Priority for the latter […]
Tobacco plan aims for ‘smoke-free generation’
[…] to fall hardest on some of the poorest and most vulnerable’, the document states. Among the plan’s other commitments are to improve data collection on smoking and mental health and provide access to training for all health professionals on how to help patients – especially those in mental health services – to quit. Anti-smoking charity […]
Addictive behaviours conference
[…] ‘drug czar’ Keith Humphreys, now at Stanford University’s School of Medicine (DDN, June 2012, page 16). The 2010 Affordable Care Act – or ‘ObamaCare’ – had defined mental health and substance use as an ‘essential healthcare benefit’, as well as allowing parents to keep their children on their private insurance plans until the age of […]
Arm in arm
[…] and other community organisations. That network means we can respond to complex needs fast, whether that’s drug and alcohol support or referring to other partners for homelessness, mental health or social isolation.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”What does effective support look like?” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left|color:%23524A36″ google_fonts=”font_family:Noto%20Sans%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]It’s about access, trust and coordination. Many veterans have had difficult experiences with services […]
Cold Sober
[…] less moderated. The informal support systems that exist in pubs – conversation, familiarity, simple human presence – are removed. What can follow is a quiet escalation of mental health challenges – isolation, low mood, anxiety, and a lack of connection that is not always recognised. So if we’re not careful, in trying to reduce harm […]
More for less
[…] regularly – the support reduced distress, preserved connection at a critical time and removed an impossible financial choice. Others have used bus tickets to attend outpatient appointments, mental health services, or substance use reviews. Importantly, some people reported feeling more willing to attend A&E when unwell, knowing they would not be stranded there if they […]
Government rules out changes to consumption room legislation
[…] could help reduce deaths off the table.’ Meanwhile, the government has published the first men’s health strategy for England, with the aim of improving physical health, tackling mental health challenges and reducing inequalities. ‘Men can be less likely to seek help and more likely to suffer in silence,’ the Department of Health and Social Care […]
Ketamine use in the UK: insights from Phoenix Futures’ residential services
[…] the UK Barriers to support and treatment The survey identified several barriers to early intervention including: Embarrassment and stigma around incontinence Lack of specialist ketamine services Poor mental health and trauma Limited community support post-rehab Crucially, both staff and residents perceived that residential treatment was only funded after people experienced severe physical decline. Recommendations for […]
Global Forum on Nicotine 2025: Quotes and summaries – part 3
[…] around the world whose smoking rates are far higher than the average smoking rates in those countries. Such as people with drug and alcohol problems, those with mental health problems, First Nation people, LGBTQ+ and others. These groups really need to have much more choice than they currently get. And what it boils down to, […]
Open door policy
[…] them from accessing the help they need, and disproportionately affects people with co-occurring needs, such as alcohol use and/or stigmatised diagnoses such as personality disorder. Too often mental health services exclude individuals with alcohol-related issues, while alcohol services are unwilling or feel unable to discuss mental health or suicidality. This siloed approach exacerbates risk factors […]
Journey Recovery and Wellness Centre, Ballito, South Africa
[…] our rehab in Durban As one of the top rehab centres in Durban we provide a peaceful space that fosters healing. We use treatments for addiction and mental health conditions based on professional guidance. This way, individuals battling these concerns can regain control of their lives. With evidence-based therapies and holistic methods, each client’s care […]
One in four women in prison being held on remand
[…] per cent of more than 3,600 women remanded by magistrates were eventually sentenced to a prison term. Some women who are considered to be in a ‘ mental health crisis’ are remanded for their own protection or as a ‘place of safety’, it adds. Women ‘tend to commit less serious offences than men,’ says the […]
WithYou responds to the Spring Statement 2025
[…] are with our clients and their families, and the impact these cuts will have on their lives, and their recoveries’ Simon Phillips, CEO of drug, alcohol and mental health charity WithYou, said: Much of the commentary surrounding today’s Spring Statement from the chancellor has focused on balancing the nation’s books and whether Rachel Reeves will […]
Get it together
[…] operating out of SIAS (Solihull Integrated Addiction Services), a community-based commissioned service in the West Midlands. SIAS is a partnership of organisations consisting of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Aquarius, Welcome Charity and Better Together-Solihull Recovery Community. We have evolved from what was Changes UK, a supported living housing provider in Birmingham. […]
Alcohol deaths continue to rise in Scotland
[…] of Scottish drug services, many of which included support for alcohol use, were closed from Friday afternoon until Monday morning. It also identified the need for adequate mental health support alongside treatment. ‘Behind today’s alcohol death figures are yet more avoidable deaths and a call to action for government and health providers,’ said Lee Ball, […]
Running a marathon with a broken leg
[…] This means people with multiple and complex needs aren’t getting the treatment that would support them to recover, including women who have experienced trauma, people with co-occurring mental health conditions and people leaving prison. This in turn exacerbates pressures elsewhere in the system, including NHS services such as A&E and mental health provision, police and […]
Phoenix Futures – supporting you with residential treatment
[…] six residential services across the UK each with their own specialism and unique features including an enhanced therapeutic community offering a blended approach to treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use, a trauma responsive female-only service and specialist family services that support parents, their children and pregnant women. All of our residential services offer: […]
Cannabis health risks higher in adolescents
[…] the most common substance that young people enter treatment for Most young people who use the drug will have received little information about its links with poorer mental health and addiction issues says the report, which is a collaboration between the University of Bath, Kings College London and University College London, and published in the […]
Care for another?
[…] in April 2021 after he was evicted from a supported living service. They were unable to manage his high alcohol intake, erratic and anti-social behaviour and deteriorating mental health. He presented with very challenging behaviours and non-engagement for the first few months. However through our harm minimisation model and our caring, supportive and stigma-free environment, […]
Barriers remain to accessing residential rehab, says Public Health Scotland
[…] rehab and lack of facilities near to where clients lived, the document states. Other barriers identified included lack of suitable provision for people with caring responsibilities or mental health issues, long waiting times for detox, and concerns about aftercare, says PHS. The agency will publish its final report on the programme in 2026. In early […]
Number of young people in treatment up by 10 per cent
[…] per cent dropped out, and 3 per cent transferred to a different provider – similar proportions to the previous year. The number of young people with a mental health treatment need stands at 48 per cent – up from 32 per cent three years previously – with 65 per cent of girls reporting a mental health need […]
DDN Conference 2023 session two: Partner power
[…] treatment & therapy services for individuals and their families: stepstogether.co.uk Turning Point – Social enterprise, delivering health and social care services in the fields of substance use, mental health, learning disability, autism, acquired brain injury, sexual health, homelessness, healthy lifestyles, and employment: www.turning-point.co.uk video highlights of session two of the ddn conference 2023 naloxone training […]
Are cost of living pressures placing UK adults at greater risk of alcohol dependence?
[…] well as polling with over 2,000 UK adults over a week in February 2023. Our research highlighted changes to how people are drinking, and the impact of mental health issues and financial pressures on people’s relationship with alcohol. We focused on alcohol specifically because it is very widely available and is the most commonly used […]
A diverse service for a diverse population
[…] the participants with a six-week group based opportunity to explore their relationship with substances. They support each other to investigate contributing factors to their struggles, such as mental health challenges or co-dependency with partners. They also look at the strengths and pitfalls of relationships with others, concerning their problematic behaviours around substances. The second half […]
The Princess of Wales sends message of support for the Taking Action on Addiction...
[…] Addiction campaign. As part of her message, Her Royal Highness speaks directly to those suffering with an addiction, reminding them that they are dealing with a serious mental health condition, that can happen to anyone and urges them to seek out help. The Princess also highlights the role society has to play saying: “Attitudes to […]
The growing concern of self-harming behaviours in adolescents
[…] workers and school staff. Self-harm is an umbrella term for any intentional form of self-injury – and is a major public health concern. Often, self-harm co-occurs with mental health disorders. Whilst people of all demographics self-harm, it is particularly prevalent among young people – with estimates suggesting that around 17% of young people have self-harmed in their […]
DDN May 2022
[…] its heart, says Karen Tyrell – well illustrated by The Oasis Project’s inspiring work (p8). With the vast majority of people in drug and alcohol services reporting mental health problems (p10), similar giant strides are needed in developing services with an integrated approach to mental health difficulties and substance misuse. We’re still creating barriers to […]
Rough Justice
[…] service, very low levels of staffing, overcrowding and extension of remand. ‘It’s the last place one would see as a treatment centre, either for substance misuse or mental health. It’s really important that the courts get a sense that there are real options in the community that work very much better for people who are […]
DDN Publication dates 2023
[…] for print adverts is available here. DDN themes for 2023 February Alcohol Wellbeing March Housing & resettlement Gambling April Training & careers Early trauma May Criminal justice Mental health (MH Awareness Week, 9-15 May) June Volunteering (Volunteers’ Week, 1-7 June) Veterans July/August Hepatitis C (Hep C Awareness Day, 28 July) Alcohol (Alcohol Awareness Week, 3-9 […]
Roots celebrates with Luton Mayor
[…] and the effort they put unto supporting the community should be replicated elsewhere. Roots to Recovery believes in the power of gardening to transform people’s physical and mental health, offering a range of opportunities to learn new skills, help reduce social isolation, and promote positive mental and physical wellbeing. Read the full blog post here. […]
Final destination
[…] tells us this is not sustainable, and that it puts one on a path toward alcoholism, something Lisa had to learn at great cost. Jerome was a mental health professional, whose own father was an alcoholic. He could always falsely reassure himself that he was not as bad as his father. Following his move from […]
Placing quality of life at the heart of transformation
[…] by many in the referral pathway to determine assessments of current risk and need. Considering these two women, their individual and collective complex needs span traumatic experiences, mental health conditions, substance use, physical conditions, autism, unsafe living environments, destructive co-dependencies and resultant criminal behaviour. Both had detailed referral information which told us much about their […]
Government pledges £80 million for treatment services
[…] well as helping offenders to access treatment on release, the funding package will also enhance the RECONNECT service to support people with complex needs to engage with mental health, substance and other services for up to a year after leaving prison. A further £28m will go towards Project ADDER (Addiction, Diversion, Disruption, Enforcement and Recovery), […]
Young people’s drug use could be 20 per cent higher than estimated
[…] are potentially underestimating illicit drug use among young people in the UK which has implications for how well we are able to support young people’s health and mental wellbeing and reduce the negative impact of drug use,’ said lead author and epidemiology scientist at Public Health England, Hannah Charles. ‘We know the Children of […]
Substance service staff prioritised in vaccination rollout
[…] to multiple vulnerable persons or other staff in a healthcare environment’. This includes those working in ‘independent, voluntary and non-standard healthcare settings such as hospices, and community-based mental health or addiction services’. Meanwhile, a PHE survey of more than 5,000 people has found that almost a quarter of drinkers say that their alcohol intake increased […]
Grow a little kindness
Samantha Smith shares the Roots project’s successful campaign for Mental Health Awareness Week.SIG Penrose Roots is a garden-based community recovery project that provides a therapeutic growing space for service users, members, volunteers and the wider community. Through work in the garden, we equip people with new skills, help reduce social isolation, and promote positive mental, […]
3rd December issue
[…] the months flash past very quickly. But it also reminds you of how much headbanging goes on. (Not the heavy metal variety.) Back in July, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health published a report that highlighted severe failure to treat dual diagnosis prisoners – the many inmates with both mental health and substance misuse problems – and pointed to under-resourcing of inreach […]
News Focus
[…] she stressed. ‘Many families are dealing with alcohol use that the user doesn’t think is a problem.’ Hidden Harm While parental substance use was often linked with mental health issues, poverty and domestic violence, and was a key factor in children being taken into care, the message of Hidden harm – that services could protect […]
working it out
[…] works for everyone else,’ said Mark Brown, founder and editor of One in Four magazine, describing how he set up a publication for people needing support with mental health issues. ‘Use the personal experience as the fire that drives you.’ He had begun his venture as a service user wanting more information, a perspective that […]
A safe space
[…] in the community has been heightened by current events. A recent survey found that 92 per cent of our service users identify as having experienced emotional or mental health issues, with 67 per cent receiving a diagnosis for their condition. Forty per cent of our treatment population are recognised as having a physical disability, and […]
DDN Magazine Partners
[…] to provide services for vulnerable people to help them to thrive and grow. www.socialinterestgroup.org.uk Turning Point is a health and social care organisation that works across mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, primary care, the criminal justice system and employment. www.turning-point.co.uk We Are With You (Formerly Addaction) is a British charity founded in […]
Programme
[…] led by Alistair Sinclair on exploring commonality while celebrating difference. How to engage - Mark Brown from One in Four , on recovery and engagement in the mental health field. - Nigel Brunsdon from HIT and Injecting Advice on tips and tricks for social networ king. 12.45pm -2.00pm: L unch and activities - Service user […]
Programme
[…] led by Alistair Sinclair on exploring commonality while celebrating difference. How to engage - Mark Brown from One in Four , on recovery and engagement in the mental health field. - Nigel Brunsdon from HIT and Injecting Advice on tips and tricks for social networking. 12.45pm -2.00pm: L unch and activities - Service user and […]
Your letters
[…] assisted therapies, with the possibility of more low threshold services like safe injecting rooms and increased supervised heroin/morphine prescribing. How many people in recovery (from addiction and mental health issues), especially the ageing cohorts, need modest doses of different mood-altering substance to live reasonable and functional lives? Think codeine, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and […]
DDNoct11
[…] £21,519-£27,849perannum•37hoursperweek Temporarycontractuptothreemonths•BasedinMargate KCA (UKb is an expanding and vibrant organisation providing a wide range of high quality and innovative specialist ser vices in the drug, alcohol and mental health sectors. Could you help chaotic injecting drug users to stabilise their use and begin shaping better lifestyles? It is a big challenge that will see you […]
Brand New Day
[…] became a consultant in an NHS drug service in Birmingham, and worked there until he started his current role as consultant psychiatrist at the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust five years ago. He’s also clinical reader in addiction psychiatry at the University of Birmingham, and now drug recovery champion on top – […]
Alcohol focus for new NHS plan
[…] early death, and the right support can save lives. The NHS long-term plan delivers a sea change in care for a range of major conditions like cancer, mental ill health and heart disease, as well as stepping up to do more on preventing ill health in the first place by giving patients the support […]
Adios Recovery Riviera?
[…] the full article in October’s DDN Magazine In his 2017 book Poverty Safari, Darren McGarvey explains how stress is often the engine room that fuels addictions and mental health issues: ‘For those living in poor social conditions, stress is all consuming; it’s the soup everyone is swimming in all the time.’ Mark Gilman is managing […]
The Fear Inside
[…] has doubled in the last 25 years due to increases in custodial sentencing and sentence lengths. This has resulted in a population comprising many more prisoners with mental health problems, substance use disorders and histories of self-harm and suicide attempts. ‘Heroin made me bulletproof’ A qualitative study was conducted with former prisoners who had experienced […]
Straight to the point – NNEF conference
[…] problem – that people had to inject to get access to the aftercare services. So it became necessary to discuss a stage four, where people could access mental health services etc, if they didn’t inject. There were also some conditions imposed by their licence that they had to adhere to, such as not allowing pregnant […]
Delayed drug strategy promises ‘national recovery champion’
[…] internationally. The national recovery champion role, meanwhile – to be appointed by the Home Office and Department of Health – will ‘make sure adequate housing, employment and mental health services are available to help people turn their lives around’, while efforts to reduce demand include continued expansion of the Alcohol and Drugs Education and Prevention […]
A round-up of national news: November 2016
[…] with the rest of the country, including better joint working, shifting the spending focus towards prevention and developing training for primary care staff on helping people with mental health conditions back into the workplace. ‘The entire system needs to shift its priority towards preventing poor health,’ said PHE chief executive Duncan Selbie. Health and wealth: […]
All the world’s a stage
[…] boundaries to negotiate but sometimes, as life unfolds, we find ourselves stuck in very restrictive roles. With this concept at its centre, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Mental Health Trust’s dual diagnosis network embarked on a journey to create a therapeutic theatre project as part of Haringey’s ‘Recovery Pride’ event (DDN, May, page 16), a […]
Barriers to work
[…] to get a handle on numbers, as we often didn’t hear about people having problems until they were in the benefit system with another problem, such as mental health issues or anxiety, she explained. ‘People worry that a specific problem might disadvantage them, so they may have something else as the primary diagnosis from their […]
A fighting chance
[…] a variety of relevant backgrounds and brings a mixture of recovery, therapeutic and military experience. Because military veterans are much less likely to seek out help for mental health issues and addiction due to feeling that this is a sign of weakness, THH sees people who are often very ill, have spent many years in […]
A step too far?
[…] 12-step engagement. I tried to make some kind of stand, and the only progress made was to get an acknowledgement that where people are persuaded to reduce mental health meds, life may be put at risk, and they wanted cases of this to be reported. I pointed out that 12-step fellowships do not work like […]
Can AI-assisted media content creation perpetuate stigmas?
[…] issues related to AI and stigmatising health conditions. Maria Dalton & Darien Klein highlight here that AI is not immune to bias in relation to depictions of mental health. ‘While we are aware of the pervasive presence of toxic masculinity and stigma present in society when it comes to men’s mental health, we cannot treat […]
Review of the year – 2023
[…] the organisations point out. DDN heads to Birmingham for its 15th annual service user conference, Many Roads. While it’s no longer socially acceptable to stigmatise people with mental health issues, Phoenix Futures chief executive Karen Biggs tells delegates, attitudes to people who use drugs still haven’t changed. AUGUST OHID issues updated guidance for commissioners and […]
Help for children of alcohol-dependent parents supports whole family
[…] can ruin lives and destroy families, and can have a particularly devastating impact on children,’ said health minister Neil O’Brien. ‘The toll it can take on their mental health and wellbeing can last throughout their lives. We owe it to these children to make sure support is available.’ ‘This scheme has equipped local authorities with […]
Just ten local authorities have increased treatment spending in last five years
[…] that the epidemic of alcohol harm gets the attention it deserves and that adequate resources are allocated to preventing and treating it.’ Meanwhile, the Home Office has awarded £11.3m to 25 police and crime commissioners (PCC) to fund domestic abuse intervention programmes, with specific programmes including ‘targeted support to address substance misuse, mental health and unemployment’.