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Recovery Festival - HousingSetting the scene
Marcus RobertsChief Executive, DrugScope
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‘Building recovery in communities’-‘drug free life’ (but also medically assisted recovery);-‘individual person-centred journey’; -‘recovery capital’;-‘recovery champions’;-‘enable reintegration back into communities’ housing/employment.
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Most people with periods of dependent or problematic use in their lives overcome this and move on.ALSOMany people who develop severe dependence have pre-existing problems or issues. People whose lives are dominated by drug and alcohol dependence often incur significant collateral damage in addition, e.g. health harms. Overcoming drug or alcohol problems is a difficult … our ambition for recovery should be tempered with realism.
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‘Effective solutions to housing [are needed] whereby in every local area there is ready access to reasonable standard accommodation. This is a pre-requisite for any progress to be made with individual recovery’
CEO of treatment service
“Somewhere to live, people to talk to, therapy to help with the past’’
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www.meam.org.ukwww.themeamapproach.org.uk
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Some links DrugScope at www.drugscope.org.uk UK Drug Policy Commission archive at
www.ukdpc.org.uk MEAM at www.meam.org.uk RSA at http://www.thersa.org/action-
research-centre/community-and-public-services/connected-communities
Contact: [email protected]