Understanding Addiction

Evidence-based articles, practical guidance, and honest stories of transformation

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Cocaine Addiction: The Signs, and Where Support Starts

Cocaine has a way of persuading people it is not a problem. It fits around jobs and weekends, it comes

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Why Connection Is the Opposite of Addiction

Johann Hari popularised the phrase, but the idea has deeper roots: addiction thrives in isolation, and recovery lives in connection.

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Part 3: Young People and New Substances

Generation Z faces a substance landscape that is almost unrecognisable from even ten years ago. Novel psychoactive substances appear faster

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Why Smart People Struggle More in Recovery

Intelligence should be an advantage in recovery. After all, understanding the problem is the first step to solving it, and

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“I’m Not Like Them”: Breaking Through Terminal Uniqueness

Terminal uniqueness might be the most dangerous idea in addiction. It sounds like this: “I am not like those people.

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Ketamine: The Hidden Epidemic

Walk into most recovery meetings in Britain and mention ketamine, and you will likely be met with blank stares. The

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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,

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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

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