Guest Blog Post from Alcohol Concern and Dry January
It’s almost that time of year again! Today I’m honoured to feature a guest blog post written for the blog by Alcohol Concern to promote their soon to be active Dry January campaign which kicks off in...
View ArticleGuest Blog Post: Veronica Valli, Chip Somers & the Soberful programme
Today’s blog post comes from my friend Veronica Valli. Veronica and I have worked together in the past where we discussed AA and the 12 steps and recorded our interveiws which you can...
View ArticleGuest Blog Post for Alcohol Concern and Dry January
So I’ve been working with Alcohol Concern and Dry January since 15th December 2017 on this year’s campaign. You may have read their guest blog post for me in December which you can read here. Or you...
View ArticleBreakthrough for Britain’s children of alcoholics
It’s Anzac Day here so I’m on a public holiday which is perfect because it allows me to get this up on the blog. Two emails from the UK overnight about this – the first one from MP Liam Byrne and the...
View ArticleDigital interventions for reducing alcohol consumption: do they work and if...
From Alcohol Policy in the UK published in April. In this guest post, Dr Claire Garnett, a Research Associate in UCL’s Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group, discusses the findings from a recent...
View ArticleDry July, Hello Sunday Morning & Daybreak
So in a couple of days Dry July starts here in Australia – the Oz equivalent of Dry January. This felt like the perfect opportunity to talk about Hello Sunday Morning who I’ve talked about before...
View ArticleThe Truth Project
Featured in The Guardian last week was an article talking about The Truth Project. Here are some key excerpts from the piece that felt very prescient to this blog: Set up by the government’s...
View ArticleDovetail: Drug Rehab – What Works & Choosing a Provider
So here in Queensland Health we’re really lucky that we have excellent support resources available for Drug and Alcohol through Insight and Dovetail. Insight is the leading provider of alcohol and...
View ArticleAlcohol Awareness Week 2018: Change
Quick shout out for Alcohol Awareness Week in the UK! Alcohol Awareness Week 19-25 November 2018 We’re very pleased to announce that the theme of this year’s Alcohol Awareness Week is ‘Change‘. Change...
View ArticleTry Dry: Dry January 2019
Alcohol Change UK: Dry January Campaign January is almost upon us and with that clock tick move from 2018 to 2019 heralds the start of Dry January in the UK. I’ll be supporting them with another blog...
View Article‘The smell of booze was part of the fabric of my childhood’: the hidden...
Victims of Alcholism from The Guardian in January 2019 Victims of Alcholism from The Guardian in January 2019: What’s it like to grow up the child of an alcoholic? One writer looks back at her teenage...
View ArticleAlcohol Change UK: About AA
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View ArticleAlcohol Change UK: About Al-Anon
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View ArticleUntoxicated & Healthy Hedonism Festival
I firstly have to thank my friend Laura Willoughby at Club Soda back in the UK for this information! Plug at the end for the latest Mindful Drinking Festival event next week-end back in London So I...
View ArticleCOVID-19: information on stopping drinking for people dependent on alcohol
Launched by PHE on 7th May 2020 What you need to know if you are dependent on alcohol, stopping drinking suddenly can be life threatening but you may be able to cut down graduallywherever possible,...
View ArticleOne in eight Australians drinking alcohol every day during COVID19 outbreak
https://pivotpoint.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/AOD-COVID-Factsheet-Alcohol.jpg This article was featured in The Guardian yesterday and follows on from this piece published back in June: Harm...
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