Gender Based Addiction Treatment.
What are the main reasons women give for not wanting to go into an all women’s treatment centre? At Western Counselling we offer a residential programme with single sex accommodation. An opportunity for men and women to focus on their core issues and explore...
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Quality Rehab With Great Outcomes For Our Clients.
I’ve spent most of the week auditing our records and sorting our outcome statistics. It’s a long-winded business as we are still paper based and dreaming of the day our antiquated IT will be replaced with exciting new systems accessible at the touch of a button....
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Discrimination Even in Death
When there is a death we mourn the passing, we share our grief and take solace from the comfort offered by others. However, when addiction is involved the situation changes. “Oh well, it’s just another dead junkie!” “One less on our streets!” “No waste there!”...
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Life Skills in Recovery
We all know that to do well, or even excel in life, we need a variety of skills; from simply learning to communicate with our peers, to being able to read and write. Or at the other extreme - an in depth knowledge of quantum physics – a skill I most certainly don’t...
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Don’t Forget the Family
Addiction is a family illness. It affects everyone who comes into contact with the behaviours. Many of us who have lived with it are often unaware of the severity of the problem. Personally, it took me 8 years to realise that the person in my family who was a heavy...
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Denial of Addiction
Addiction is a powerful, all-consuming disease that has chameleon-like qualities. It can easily take shelter behind other problems in an effort to avoid being recognised. Addiction has no intention of accepting accountability for the destruction it causes instead, it...
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5 Reasons for Leaving Treatment Early – and how we work to avoid them.
Take me to last weeks article Deciding on a treatment centre is a big decision; some clients will choose at random others will be methodical in their approach to residential rehab, however despite the preparation, or lack of, there will always be clients who will...
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The Realities of Family Life After Rehab
Leaving rehab and returning home can be a stressful time for everyone in the family, there will be essential changes that need to be faced. Everyone will be seeking to reflect the changes seen in their loved one who has been on an intense journey of self-discovery;...
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Harare Community Get Behind a New Treatment Centre
Visit our Zimbabwe progress post Time is running out, later this week I will be leaving Zim, however I will be back. The long awaited presentation and launch of The Addiction and Recovery Trust 2015 (ART) and The First Step was last Thursday night to a packed out...
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Week 3 in Zimbabwe and Making Progress
Visit our Harare post week 2 “The sun always shines in Zimbabwe”, well that’s my perception. I’ve been told about the storm clouds and the rains, however every morning as I open my curtains all I can see is endless bright blue sky “Scorchio” is my first thought. I’ve...
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