Naloxone, and staying alive while you work it out
How to get a naloxone kit free in the UK without being in treatment, how to recognise an opioid overdose, and three harm-reduction habits for anyone not ready to stop.
Rebuilding money, work and trust
Start the repair that unblocks the others, which is usually money. Free regulated debt advice, what to do about a gap on your CV, and why trust moves at the speed of reliability.
NA, SMART Recovery or treatment
Three routes with three different asks. What NHS treatment gives you that a meeting cannot, what each fellowship requires abstinence from, and how to start one this week.
Why coming back after a break is the risky part
Tolerance falls fast when you stop and does not come back at the same speed. What that means for the first use after any gap, and the four habits that keep it survivable.
You used again. What now?
Four steps that keep one night from becoming a month, starting with the safety fact that matters most tonight: your tolerance fell while you were not using.
The people, places and hours that pull you back
Fourteen days of four-column logging turns a repeating week into a named list of high-risk hours, routes and people, and each item on that list converts into one change you can make.
What detox actually involves
An assessment, a keyworker, and for some substances a prescription. Which drugs need medical supervision to come off, what a supervised withdrawal looks like, and how to ask for one.
Telling someone about your drug use
Who to tell first, the sentence to use, and how to find out what confidentiality you actually have before you say anything, rather than guessing.
Cutting off the supply
How to actually close your supply: the number, the group chats, the money and the route home. What to do about debt, and what blocking cannot fix.
Getting through a craving without using
A delay routine long enough for the peak to pass: what to do with the phone, the twenty minutes, and the person you message. Written for the moment the message is half typed.
Is my drug use a problem?
Judge it by control, priority and consequence rather than by amount, frequency, or by comparison with someone worse. A private set of questions and what each answer points to.
How to stop using
Three first moves you can make today to stop using, plus which drugs make stopping suddenly dangerous and why that difference matters.