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The everyday lives of recovering heroin users

Blog

02 Jul 2012

Steve Broome

Today the RSA publishes its first book around our wider work on recovery from substance misuse.  ‘The everyday lives of recovering heroin users’, by Joanne Neale, Professor of Public Health at Oxford Brookes University; Sarah Nettleton, Reader in Sociology at University of York; and Lucy Pickering, Lecturer in Anthropology at University of Glasgow, provides detailed accounts of the day to day, practical journey of recovery.  By way of a blog and a book review, below is the foreword I wrote for the publication.  Limited copies are available from the RSA – contact me by email.

Personalised recovery for West Kent drug misusers

Press release

28 Jun 2012

Drug misusers in West Kent are to get help reintegrating back into their communities through new local 'recovery alliances' – partnerships made up of service users, community workers, local businesses and other volunteers – as part of a major project announced by the RSA.

What does the future hold for a recovery agenda?

Blog

01 Jun 2012

This week I read an interesting blog post  by Toby Seddon entitled ‘The politics of recovery’. The article draws the comparison between previous crime reduction and harm reduction strategies that have now given way to a more recovery orientated agenda in formulating modern drug policy. The tone of this piece is one of scepticism outlining that continuity is often king, and that recent policies have much in common with their predecessors on  a strategic level. So where does this leave the implementation of a recovery agenda on the front line, and more importantly in our local communities?

Would you know a Recovery Champion if you saw one?

Blog

28 Jun 2011

I had a strange thought on the train today – what if Recovery Champions were like the popstars we all want to be (don’t we?!) and the journey to getting to that position was as easy as winning X-factor...

'Recovery communities' needed to combat drug misuse

Press release

24 Nov 2010

Drug misusers need a personalised package of support with greater control over their individual drug treatment in order to sustain their road back to recovery, according to Whole Person Recovery, a report from the RSA.