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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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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...
Drug Consumption Rooms: Helpful or Harmful? – new audio episode
The Leading Forward series has released a new audio episode with The Forward Trust's CEO Mike Trace providing a deep-dive into the world of...
Drug-related deaths: Adfam calls on government to help families save lives
Every year at about this time the government publishes the number of drug-related deaths registered in England and Wales in the previous year. The...
Recent Posts
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...
A piece of the action
The Alcohol Care Team Innovation and Optimisation Network (ACTION) is a subscription-based quality improvement network sitting under the College Centre for Quality Improvement at...
Border Force seizes £1bn worth of cocaine in three months
The Border Force confiscated almost 15 tonnes of cocaine worth more than £1bn between 1 June and 31 August, the Home Office has announced...
Government consults on revising ‘outdated’ licensing rules
The government has launched a four-week, fast-track review to ‘tear up outdated licensing rules that have been holding back pubs, bars and local events’....
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
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...
Castle Craig: it’s time to leave addiction behind
Residential rehab facility in the heart of the Scottish Borders treating people suffering from addiction since 1988.
ISO 9001: Rated ‘Outstanding’
Castle Craig is an HIS...
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...