Addiction
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
The Lifecycle of Addiction and Recovery Addiction problems seem to be something that comes to everyone’s attention because of the crises that it causes. Possibly the first few crisis situations pass by and are excused to circumstances but soon enough of a series of crisis shows there is a deeper problem. At the time that […]
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Tags: intervention, recovery, relapse
Monday, March 11th, 2019
Whether you have an addiction problem, care about someone with an addiction problem or even if you work with people who have addiction problems, I think it helps to step back for a minute and understand how this problem and it’s recovery unfolds. It’s too easy to get blinkered, judgemental of ourselves and others, and […]
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
How long should someone stay in Rehab? This depends on so many things, how many problems are being treated, how intense they are and so on. Some people come to stay for a brief respite and others stay longer so it’s interesting to know if there is any evidence for different benefits for different lengths […]
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Tags: alcohol, anxiety, depression, Detox, treatment
Wednesday, September 13th, 2017
What can Psychology teach us? A series of short articles about useful ideas from psychology. The Fundamental Attribution Error This is a psychological phenomenon coined by the Stanford Psychology professor Lee Ross based on a psychology experiment by Psychologists Jones and Harris (1967).
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2017
Robin Lefever’s Interview with Clare Kennedy, founder of Kennedy St & Co For many of us in recovery, the idea of going out to a bar is a terrifying prospect. Will I be laughed at for ordering an orange juice? Will the shelves stacked with spirit bottles be too tempting to resist? But Brighton […]
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Monday, November 3rd, 2014
We are delighted to hear that the organiser’s behind the Movember movement are turning their focus this year to men’s Mental Health. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29841063 It is our considerable experience that physical and mental health are not separate matters but two aspects of well-being and resilience that overlap and have a clear cause and effect relationship; […]
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Tags: anxiety, awareness, banditos, charity, depression, fundraising, Justin Coughlan, men's health, mental health, Mental Illness, mentally broken, movember, preventing suicide, promis, resilience, seek help
Thursday, October 30th, 2014
It has been impossible, today, to ignore the important findings of a recent Home Office report, which compared the UK’s approach to drug misuse with that of 13 other countries and concluded that there is no evidence that the criminalisation of drug use leads to a reduction in the problem. See, for example, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29824764. In […]
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Tags: addiction, Addiction Treatment, Crime, criminalisation, Dependency, Home Office report, illegal drug abuse, interventions, mental health, Mental Illness, rehabilitation
Sunday, January 19th, 2014
An experienced Recovery Coach from the States paid our Hay Farm clinic a visit and gave us an account of his observations that we are happy to share with you. We thank Dr. Ronald W. Hill for his kind and insightful thoughts. Recently I had the privilege and pleasure of visiting the PROMIS residential treatment […]
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Tags: hay farm, PROMIS Feedback, Recovery Clinic, ronald hill, treatment
Thursday, December 27th, 2012
Not so long ago Alcoholics Anonymous was regarded with condescension by many professionals working in the addiction field. A common view was that science-based techniques, like Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) had made the Anonymous Fellowships seem like a quaint and outmoded quasi-religious cult. At the same time, there were encouraging signs of scientific method being […]
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Tags: AA, abstinence, Addiction Treatment, anonymous fellowships, CBT, co-morbidity, depression, major depression, Professor Stephenson, recovery, substance use
Monday, October 15th, 2012
‘Natural recovery’ is a term used to describe recovery from addiction without the help of professionals. It’s a term that rather implies there’s something unnatural about the professional or even AA route. However, other terms that have been used are also problematic, given that they all embody an explanation of the phenomenon that is open to question. For example, Tuchfield (1981) was one of the first to describe what he called “spontaneous recovery”, although the recovery his alcohol dependent respondents described were generally the product of a sense of shame that had grown over a long period of time, even if the ultimate decision was sudden.
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Tags: addictive behaviour, Alcohol Dependence, assessing dependency, Boscloo, Christo, DSM IV, klingemann, maturing out, Najman, Natural recovery, NESDA, professional treatment, Professor Stephenson, recovery, self-change, spontaneous recovery, treatment strategy, Tuchfield