When Your Child Will Not Accept Help

There is a particular kind of helplessness that comes from watching someone you love destroy themselves. When that person is your child — regardless of their age — the helplessness is compounded by a primal drive to protect them that you cannot switch off. You have tried everything. Pleading, reasoning, threatening, bargaining, ignoring, researching, crying, […]

Recovery Pathways Overview

Twelve Steps, SMART, Refuge, Dharma, and more

Ketamine: The Hidden Epidemic

Walk into most recovery meetings in Britain and mention ketamine, and you will likely be met with blank stares. The literature does not mention it. The old-timers may not understand it. And the person who has just arrived, desperate for help with their ketamine problem, concludes that they are in the wrong place. They are […]

The Science Behind the Six-Lens Framework

Most recovery programmes ask you to understand your addiction through a single lens: disease, or moral failing, or chemical dependency, or trauma response. Each of these perspectives holds truth. But each one, taken alone, leaves gaps that can become relapse triggers. The Six-Lens Framework is our approach to a more complete understanding. Rather than arguing […]

Timeless Principles, Modern Language: Why We Translated the Steps

When Bill Wilson wrote the Big Book in 1939, cocaine was a local anaesthetic, ketamine did not exist, and the internet was decades away. The principles he outlined remain powerful and transformative — they have carried millions of people, including us, out of addiction and into life. Nothing in this piece argues with that. What […]