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Responsible Gambling Week in the UK is a campaign led by the gambling industry that aims to create a conversation with customers, staff and the wider public about gambling responsibly, driving awarene...

Recovery from addiction that place individuals and others at risk is a process, it is not a single step. Although it begins with an extremely important and essential single step—the personal decisio...

Residential treatment for addiction is much more than just learning to stop taking drugs, using alcohol, gambling etc. One of the fundamental tenants of any treatment program worth its weight in gold ...

There are a variety of mental health conditions, all with different presentations, however, they are all generally characterised by a combination of abnormal thoughts, perceptions, emotions, behaviour...

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”  – Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul If it is not bad enough to be suffering w...

Strong Hope Are Proud To Support The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) Over 800,000 people die by suicide annually, representing 1 person every 40 seconds Suicide is the ...

What is an Overdose/OD and what is the current picture? An overdose can be described as a process of taking a larger dose of a drug than the body is able to handle. Overdoses can occur accidentally...

For the individual with a drug and alcohol misuse problems life is very seldom a bed of roses. For the using individual shame, guilt, worry, deceit and money issues are all present in varying degrees ...

Recent figures from Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicated that deaths from fentanyl and fentanyl derivatives in the UK have risen by nearly 80% between 2016 and 2017 and the deaths from varia...

  The UK gambling commission estimates that 430,000 people in the UK are problem gamblers and up to two million are at risk of having a gambling problem. The picture in Canada is similar with ...