PROMIS is often featured in the media. Here are some of the occasions where we have been consulted on addiction by the press.
Alumni Cathryn Kemp has been working tirelessly to get better help and understanding for people who become addicted to painkillers after revealing her own experience of dependence and subsequent detoxification at PROMIS in her book “Coming Clean: Diary Of A Painkiller Addict by Cathryn Kemp (Little Brown, £10.99)” Cathryn has also founded a charity “Painkiller […]
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; […]
Can’t stop, won’t stop
Can you get a loved one to see they have a drinking problem? It’s tough, but it can be done. Susan Jackson explains…
( Article from last week’s Sunday Express )
Cathryn Kemp’s art work that she created whilst in treatment at PROMIS going through a difficult detox can be viewed on the Saatchi Gallery website.
I was quoted in The Sun newspaper today on the use of methadone to treat heroin addicts on the NHS, here is what I said: HAVING people on methadone for years is a travesty. But if you get them off it you have to work out how to help them next.
Catheryn Kemp describes her brave battle to come of pain killers in an article she has written for the Sun newspaper.
Self harm hits the headlines again as the problem is seen to grow especially amongst the young.
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