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This stuff is not about re-writing the script around what we as workers do. But, to my mind, it is about changing our attitudes and perceptions around the models we’ve been used to working within. To familiarise ourselves with a fresh approach that is able to offer Recovery as a very real and genuine option for the people who walk in through our doors [Peter M, WIred In]
I have been thinking a lot recently about how we develop recovery enhancing environments and move towards a strengths based model of treatment. As a result I have been thinking about what has been important to my own recovery and how I how I realised what type of career, and indeed lifestyle, I would be suited to [Matthew, Wired In]
What are you up to at 3.00 on Saturday September 25th 2010? Putting a face on Recovery that’s what. And furthermore you will be proclaiming, by just being there, that Recovery is a Reality! There is great value in being part of the Wired In community, we all know this. But we need to take the message on to the streets of Glasgow and show everyone that there is hope [UK Recovery Walk 2010, Wired In]
I was reading Halyz blog just now, and something struck me that I wanted to share with you all. The last couple of sentences of the blog talked about how she felt when someone complimented her on her appearance and how that made her feel [Paps, Wired In]
I have spent much of this morning lurking around my flat in a deerstalker hat, magnifying glass in hand,my trusty hound (not of the Baskervilles, he’s mine) by my side searching for my missing muse. I had it last week, I may well have had it the week before, but today my muse has gone AWOL [Michaela, Wired In]
The alcohol dependence syndrome was seen as a cluster of seven elements that concur. It was argued that not all elements may be present in every case, but the picture is sufficiently regular and coherent to permit clinical recognition [Wired In]
He describes his mind as a washing machine, constantly churning over thoughts, the skills he has learnt in the programme help him rationalise and deal with those thoughts and the subsequent emotions [Inexcess TV, UK]
I have no idea how you people out there ever recover from addiction. You are such marvellously strong individuals. I can’t even do this small thing, I just stuff my face with crap and cry. What you all have to do is climb a mountain – how do you get the strength do this? [Susan C, WIred In]
Many of you will be aware of the SDRC from previous blogs and discussions on Wired In. Well, here’s an update and more information about the SDRC as we are now up and running. Our membership will be drawn from Scotland but we are very keen to link across the broader UK Recovery networks [Dougie Paterson, Wired In]
Recovery capital is the quantity and quality of internal (‘person’) and external (‘social context’) resources that one can bring to bear on the initiation and maintenance of recovery. The interaction of problem severity and recovery capital shapes both the prospects of recovery and the intensity and duration of resources (e.g. formal treatment) required to initiate and sustain recovery [Wired In]
I have previously emphasised the primary importance of treatment and treatment professionals: to facilitate the person’s natural healing processes to help them find personal recovery. I recently found an excellent description of what is required of professionals working in the field in The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model… [David Clark, Wired In]
This blog is about emerging roles in recovery orientated systems/services. Many people may be hearing the words ‘recovery coach’, ‘recovery mentor’ or ‘recovery champion’ and wondering what they are all about. All these roles involve enhancing the support for recovery which exists in local communities. What does this mean? [Matthew, Wired In]
So the plan? Well I have decided to learn from my son’s example when he was in rehab. I expect a lot of you are well aware of this and could give me some ideas. But each day I will refect on something that I have really enjoyed and also something I have learnt about/from and, for me, perhaps one of the key things for my recovery is what I have given another person [Susan C, Wired In]
Robins’ impressive research study contradicted the commonly held belief that heroin use is an inevitable consequence of using the drug, and that once it has taken hold it is virtually impossible for the user to give up the habit. It provides a good example of the ways in which changes in social circumstances can have a powerful effect on the way people use drugs [Wired In]
We already know much about how addiction behaves. To package it as a short term problem, cured at six months by treatment is unhelpful. Not to mention mutual aid is curious. If I were cynical, I’d be concluding that either the authors are not knowledgeable of how cocaine addiction behaves, or they want to put a positive spin on things. Neither is admirable [Peapod, Wired In]
I have been shocked recently to see people who I know to be good workers so disillusioned, angry, and upset. And leaving! And do you know what they are blaming it on – Recovery! Now of course its not Recovery that has made their jobs intolerable. That’s just the word that they see and blame for the changes they have been subjected to [Melody, Wired In]
Just wanted to share with you all something that happened today. The RCRC singing group based at SHARP Liverpool went on the first leg of its UK Tour of rehabs! We started today at Oaktrees Treatment Centre in Gateshead. We are aiming to visit 6 other rehabs around the country in the next 12 months or so [Jac, Wired In]
Don’t tell me I have a choice because I know damn well I have a choice. A choice to be happy or sad, to stay ‘stuck’ or move on and actually, at this moment in time I want to be sad, and I want to stay stuck in my misery and feel sorry for myself and feel sorry for Michael and to stay in the house and never return to work [Susan C, Wired In]
That’s if we got to see him. His lifestyle had a strong hold on him by now and, if he wasn’t addicted, he was a long way down that road [Keith F, Wired In]
I finished my step 4 and read it out last week. It was so hard. I hate going into my past, but hey, I’m so glad I did as it has revealed a number of things to me. Like I was mostly to blame for the things that I’ve done and the resentments I hold [Mark Burns, Wired In]
