Addiction to alcohol is no different to addiction to any other drug... except that alcohol is legal, widely available, and used as the drug of recrea…

Psychotherapist Noel Bell explores some helpful treatment plans for addiction.

Drugs and sex have been combined for centuries, helping people to feel uninhibited and to enhance the experience. There is a distinct difference, how…

Addiction specialist, Luke Worsfold, explains how DBT can be a useful approach in addiction recovery.

There are three generally acknowledged booby traps awaiting those on the sometimes rocky road to recovery, whether they have been dry a day, a week,…

Anyone familiar with the programmes “Fat: The Fight of My Life” or “Obese: A Year to Save my Life” will also be aware of food addiction. In these pro…

Alcohol can have a powerful influence on many of us. It quietens the mind and relaxes us after the stress of a long, hard day’s work. It can make tim…

I would like to speak about a subject very close to me, from both a professional and personal standpoint. I’ve worked in the field of substance misus…

It is true that not everybody who watches porn is indulging in problem behaviour. If your use of porn is not causing you any harm and not adversely a…

As a drugs worker, I spent many years visiting people in prison who were addicted to heroin and crack cocaine, in order to help them get treatment. U…

Through experience of working in a substance misuse agency it has become clear that a vast majority of individuals in the midst of addiction have und…

Perhaps you have just left treatment, along with a continued plan for recovery that seems rather lightweight in the wake of peer support from which y…