Is there really no substitute for abstinence?

As a drug addict and alcoholic I knew something needed to change, but I was unable to figure out for myself what. I thought I needed to learn how to control my crack use, and better manage my injecting points (my arms, feet and hands wer...

Drug Death Rise Taking Its Toll On Scotland

Scotland's latest statistics for drug related deaths have been released and seen yet another increase on the previous year. Scotland has recorded its highest number of drug death poisonings since records began in 1996. There current stat...

Spice Drug Is Causing Prison Nurses To “Pass out” In Smoke Filled Prison Cells

The Royal College of Nursing has stated that they feel their NHS healthcare staff are being exposed to “unacceptable” conditions in prisons whilst treating inmates that are using the highly dangerous drug Spice. This follows reports ...

Treatment Advisory Service

Sober Services provide specialist recovery support and addiction treatment services, including Sober Companions and Sober Body-Guides. Both services are focused on maintaining complete abstinence from alcohol and drugs. Our Sober Compani...

What is a Sober Companion

Sober Services provide specialist recovery support and addiction treatment services, including Sober Companions, Recovery Coaches, Sober Guardians, Sober Coaches, Sober Transporters and Sober Bodyguards / Guides (they have many names, th...

Interventions

Do you have a family member or loved one that you feel would benefit from an experience in a rehab for their alcoholism but refuses to stop drinking? Or perhaps they have a drug abuse problem or even a drug addiction and are refusing to ...

What to look for in a Sober Companion

When we meet with families and concerned parties, one of the questions we ask is “What would be your very best possible outcome for your loved one or colleague?”...

Intervention – A professional view – Q&A with Ian Young

Letting the Light in ran a Questions & Answers Interview with Ian Young about his style of Interventions for families...

The only way to stop using drug… is to stop using drugs.

I’m prompted to respond to the news yesterday of President Obama’s visit to Atlanta to discuss drug policy, specifically heroin addiction and alternate prescribing such as methadone and suboxone. Obama: Addiction is a preventable disease...

Dry January – 7 ways to be a successful “DryAthlete”:

I’ve noticed a good many of my friends posting on Facebook and Tweeting about how they are attempting to remain Sober throughout January and then I saw that Cancer Research UK have launched a publicity drive for themselves and in an eff...

6 ways to convince an Alcoholic / Addict to accept help

Over my professional career as an Addiction Consultant, I’ve talked with thousands of family members about their loved one, who more often than not doesn’t have the same desire to change their drinking or drugging habits as the rest ...

12 Step Meetings – uncovered

There are few places in the world where you’ll find more honesty, vulnerability, courage, and mutual support than in a 12-Step Fellowship Group meeting. The 12 Step meetings are an extremely important resource of someone’s recovery for...

Early Recovery Suggestions

  I’ve been speaking to a good number of clients recently who’ve been struggling with some of the aspects of their own expectations in early recovery, so I’ve compiled this list of goals and reminders for people with addictive disease ...

10 Suggestions for a Healthy Recovery

I’ve been working One-On-One with a gentleman with full blown addictions to drugs and alcohol recently and after my recent post titled 10 Recommendations For A Healthy Future referencing how to beat an addictive compulsion when you’ve no...

10 Recommendations For A Healthy Future

  I have often been asked to work with individuals with personal challenges for whom discretion due to their public profile is of immense importance. This means that traditional rehabilitation treatment and mixing with other patients, or...