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NHS Foil for Heroin Users

Blog

11 Aug 2014

Steve Bodycomb

The horrors of heroin addiction have been well-documented recently.

Link me, Like me, Follow me……do you need a digital detox?

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28 Jul 2014

Steve Bodycomb

80 per cent of people would rather go without a car, chocolate or alcohol than be without their digital device for a day according to a recent report. Now I don’t know about you but when someone can’t go without something, or suffer acute withdrawal from lack of its use, I’d call it an addiction. 

What does a neuroscientist eat for breakfast?

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26 Jun 2014

Lucy Chamberlin

In its quest for a more ‘circular economy’, the RSA Great Recovery is focusing on the links between design, materials and waste. Last week, I visited the Science Museum’s new installation on rubbish.

Smelling the ethanol

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16 May 2014

Steve Broome

The links between alcohol consumption and offending are well-documented, at least at a topline level. Over a fifth of prisoners surveyed in 2012 reported an alcohol problem when they began their sentence (a survey which was likely to underestimate the prevalence of alcohol problems among offenders due to under-reporting and recognition of problems), and an earlier survey in 2010 found that three fifths of those entering prison with an alcohol problem would also leave with one.

Alcohol and Crime: How Do We Break the Cycle?

Video

13 May 2014

With Rowan Conway, John Podmore, Simon Antrobus and Kevin McGrath

Let me tell you a story, about the Power to Create

Blog

12 May 2014

Jack Robson

This is a guest blog by Steve Bodycomb. Steve is involved with the West Kent Recovery Service and a member of the service’s Research and Innovation Team.

Are you coming to bed?

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31 Mar 2014

Susie Pascoe

March has been National Bed Month.

The RSA Whole Person Recovery, Co-Design Learning Journeys, June / July 2013 – Some reflections…

Blog

09 Sep 2013

As Lead Recovery Community Organiser within the WPR programme, one of my responsibilities is to ensure there is a quick and responsive capacity on the part of my team, to meet the emergent requirements of the community of c.600 service users within the west Kent region that we work in.  Earlier this summer in June, I had a seemingly random conversation with one of my colleagues from our principle partner organisation CRI - www.cri.org.uk about the prospect of somehow transforming the rather standard and corporate ‘social care facility’ non-aesthetic (that is a space designed and decorated, without any real design-sensibility informing the look, feel and function of the space) at the Tonbridge hub.

Mindfulness as a Sustainable Approach to Change

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24 Jun 2013

Jack Robson

In the effort to make any sort of lasting behavioural change in life – wanting to eat more healthily, do more exercise, get more sleep, socialise with greater ease and success or having a more accepting and positive attitude towards ourselves - it is essential to identify and develop resources to help prevent oneself from slipping back into limiting or negative thought/behavioural patterns. Within the recovery model, militating against such ‘back-sliding’ is commonly known as relapse prevention; the ability to recognise when we are likely to return to negative behaviour patterns and to take appropriate action(s) to avoid this occurring.