Monthly Archives: November 2011
HIT Hot Topics, Fundraiser and Brink visit
| November 23, 2011 | Posted by Stacey under Drugs and Alcohol, Friends of Inspire Health and Mind, Harm Reduction, HIT Hot Topics, People, Recovery |
On Thursday 17th November I took the train to Liverpool and headed to the impressive Liverpool Anglican Cathedral for HIT‘s first Hot Topics seminar. After the success of the Hot Topics conference in May there will now be seminars like this popping up on any topic people submit to HIT. You can submit an idea…
Johnny’s Story – 8 months & counting
| November 16, 2011 | Posted by Stacey under Awareness, Blog, Dependency, Drugs and Alcohol, Facebook and Twitter, Friends of Inspire Health and Mind, People, Recovery |
Thinking back to the panel on Stigma and Discrimination at the National Drug Conference in Dublin this month it was highlighted that we never read good stories in the papers. Bad news sells. Users get all the bad press but rarely do we hear of the success stories. Maybe we can’t change the newspapers or…
Volunteer Jeanette’s Recovery from Alcohol Dependency – update
| November 14, 2011 | Posted by Stacey under Alcohol, Blog, Facebook and Twitter, People, Recovery |
As it’s Alcohol Awareness Week I asked our volunteer Jeanette to write a follow up to her February post which you can read here … Volunteer Jeanette’s inspirational recovery journey Jeanette has been working really hard for Inspire Health and Mind and on her OU studies so thank you Jeanette! Stacey Last time Stacey asked…
National Drugs Conference Ireland 2011
| November 9, 2011 | Posted by Stacey under Blog, Drugs and Alcohol, Friends of Inspire Health and Mind, NDCI 2011, People, Recovery |
I was lucky enough to be invited back to Dublin again to help at this year’s National Drugs Conference. I flew with Nigel Brunsdon Injecting Advice and now HIT Community Manager and we met Kevin Cundy of Frontier Medical Group at the airport. It was held as previously at the Radisson hotel (great showers!). Tim…
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