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Pain barriers

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Much of our work is organised around labels – addiction, long-term or harmful substance use, chronic pain, mental health, trauma. Each has its own...

Half of public back treatment instead of custody for drug-related offending

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Forty-seven per cent of people think offenders with a drug or alcohol problem linked to their crime should be sent to a rehabilitation programme...

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Scottish drug deaths up by 11 per cent

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Back to the future

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This month, residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation services across England will be doing something remarkably simple – opening their doors. Through the Open Houses campaign,...

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‘I had a massive problem with alcohol. It nearly killed me’

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