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Treatment & Recovery “A Game of Two Halves” Assertively linking treatment and mutual aid Friday, 8 th June 2012. Mark Gilman Strategic Recovery Lead. “What's the point of treatment?”. Reduce Crime Prevent Blood Borne Virus Transmission Initiate Long Term Recovery. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Treatment & Recovery“A Game of Two Halves”
Assertively linking treatment and mutual aid
Friday, 8th June 2012
Mark GilmanStrategic Recovery Lead
“WHAT'S THE POINT OF TREATMENT?”
1. Reduce Crime
2. Prevent Blood Borne Virus Transmission
3. Initiate Long Term Recovery
1. Make Contact - ACCESSe.g. Needle & Syringe Exchange
2. Maintain Contact - RETENTIONe.g. Methadone Maintenance Treatment
3. TREATMENT COMPLETIONMake Positive Lifestyle Changes
Whole family and community based solutions
“You alone can do it but...You CANNOT do it alone!”
The New Public Health 1987
Public Health & Asset Based Recovery 2012
“All by myself...”
In treatment but socially isolated
...SHOULD NEVER BE...
Epidemiology & the size of Social Worlds
In Active Addiction
“Taking Care of Business”
In Recovery
“Spreading the message”In
Treatment
butSociallyIsolated
Treatment and Recovery: Content, Themes & Characteristics
Treatment:Acute Short Term interventions
“I” for Individual, Individualism
Medical & Clinical
Risk Averse
Apathetic
Talking therapies•Aftercare•Day Programmes (CBT)
Residential Rehabilitation
Professionals as Experts
Recovery:Long term process
“We” as in Community, Mutualism
Social & Communal
Embraces Risk
Ambitious
Activities – Doing stuff•12 Step Mutual Aid (NA, CA, AA)•SMART Recovery (CBT)
Recovery Housing & Mutual Aid
“Recoverees” as Experts
Treatment & Recovery Eco Systems
Treatment Community
Recovery Communities
Treatment Community
Recovery Communities
CHANGE THIS...
TO THIS...
Co-Production of Recovery
“Those who successfully
complete don't hang
around”
R ECOVERY
COMMUNITY
TREATMENT
5 ways to well being
“You alone can do it but you can’t do it alone”
TreatmentPlan
Recovery Plan
Long term, in treatment population
Basic IdeasPeople do recover from addiction
Treatment can initiate long term recovery
People can get well where they got sick (cf. Merseyside NA)
The therapeutic value of one addict helping another is crucial
Recovery as social justice
Recovery Communities are Asset Based Community Development and “Big Society?” in action
3 Recovery Principles
1.CommunalNot “I” always “WE”
2.Working systematically with treatment = new territory
3.Long term process
Do you suffer from CPTI?
"The therapeutic value of one addict helping another”
75 years on:“more than 2
million members”
Wikipedia
Rediscovering AA and Mutual AidRecovery since 1935
“I can’t but WE can”
“You alone can do it but you cannot do it
alone”
Recovery does slowly what drink, drugs & medications do fast...
...changes perception of reality.
Learning how to fit in
To live life on life’s terms
Free from fear
Free from addiction
“Community as method”
Recovery community a place where you learn how
to live right, with other people...
Treatment & Recovery Process1. Make contact (e.g. Needle & Syringe Programmes)
2. Maintain contact (e.g. Stabilisation & medication)
3. Successfully complete treatment-----------------HALF TIME ----------------------4. Change Lifestyle
5. Change Identity
6. Prevent Inter Generational Transmission of Addiction
2nd Half
V S DEDRECOVERY
•I want it now
•I want the best
•I want it free
•Somebody owes me!
“Transformed People, Transform People”3 elements in the treatment room?
TWELVE STEP FACILITATATION (TSF)
By Assertive Linkage to Mutual AidR ECOVERY
COMMUNITY
5 ways to well being in Recovery
1. Connect… With people around you. Go to meetings (AA, NA, CA, SMART)
2. Be Active…do something, go for a walk, exercise, do anything.
3. Give… Do something for someone else. Volunteer.
4. Keep Learning… Try something new. Become a student of recovery?
5. Take Notice… Be curious. Be present. ‘The Power of Now’ (Ekhart Tolle)
Identifying and changing social networksQ. Who do you spend your time with in a typical week?
DIP>TREATMENT>PRISON“Frequent Flyer & Recycling Programme”
DIPPRISON
TREATMENT
How many?Who are they?Dual Diagnosis?
PPOs?
•Creating Recovery Communities
•Changing Social Networks
•Organising Recovery Communities
“The addition of just one abstinent person to a social network increased the probability
of abstinence for the next year by 27% Litt et al – “Changing network support for drinking” (2009, (p230))
PPOs Carrying the Message
BEFORE
AFTER
Preparing for Relapse “Warrior Down!” http://www.whitebison.org
Treatment Plan Review
Recovery CommunitiesRisky and Ambitious?
“A life beyond your wildest dreams”
“We are family!” Hard Wired to Attachment
“We may not need everybody but all of us need somebody”
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