Addiction News

Taking Action on Addiction is a campaign to improve understanding of addiction and end the stigma that surrounds it.

A BBC Radio 4 production – The Science of Addiction 

A year with people as they trial a new way to beat their drink and drug addictions.

The UK Charity StepChange, which specialises in offering advice on debts and money management, highlights the link between addiction and debt.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave.

The term High Functioning Alcoholic has changed to Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD).

The number of women seeking help for problem gambling has doubled in the last five years

I had a friend who ran a fishing project at a local venue, Selwyn Pond, formerly the estate pond of the Lord of the Manor, now in the middle of a deprived council estate. Kids with a whole variety of challenges learned to listen, to be calm, to focus and concentrate on one thing, to […]

Grandma £10,000 in debt after two year ‘secret’ gambling addiction

Sky News was granted rare access to Cocaine Anonymous, a support group where people meet to overcome their dependence on the class A drug.    

List of street names used for Heroin. Gladstones Private Rehab Clinic based in London, Bristol and the Cotswolds.

Does Food addiction Exist? – A Radio 4 BBC programme asks if Food addiction really exists.