by admin | Sep 1, 2022 | News
“Drug related deaths in England and Wales are now the highest since records began. There were over 4,800 deaths relating to drug poisoning registered in 2021. That’s up 80% from 2012. Peter Lane met people who have come terribly close to losing their own...
by admin | Aug 22, 2022 | Blog
On this week’s Recovery Round-Up, we have a powerful article from Beth, an Associate Navigator with Changing Futures – a team that supports people who have frequently experienced the deepest of traumas. Describing her own lived experience of mental health difficulties...
by admin | Aug 9, 2022 | Blog
Continuing in the spirit of mixing things up and trying something new, we present this week’s Recovery Round-Up in the form of a poetry takeover – with a piece of verse from our resident recovery poet and Red Rose volunteer Fred Mansfield. Fred has been writing poetry...
by admin | Jul 26, 2022 | Blog
We’ve decided to do something a bit different for the latest edition of Recovery Round-Up, and temporarily transform the blog into a vlog! Watch Jennie Chapman in conversation with Carl Ablott, Changing Futures Peer Mentor, about his recent success at the Lancashire...
by admin | Jun 9, 2022 | Blog
By Jennie Chapman CASE STUDY: Anthony, 31, has just been to A+E with severe gastro-intestinal pain. This is his sixth visit in four months with the same symptoms. He is visibly in discomfort, and tells you he has been taking opioids for years, in escalating...
