By D&M Consultants “Lived experience practitioners are the logical leaders of recovery implementation due to their own internal experience and understandings of recovery…” (Byrne et al., 2016, p. 935) Despite an abundance of research evidence that demonstrates the effectiveness of workers with lived experience in the fields of mental health, addiction and disability, there remain …
By D&M Consultants D&M Consultants understand that clients enter our program at different stages of ‘readiness’ to change. We recognise that most of our them will be mandated to attend. This is challenging as people may protest that as this is a forced intervention, how can a person be compelled to change? There is research evidence …
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By D&M Consultants Many people are cautious about using the term ‘addict’ to describe someone who has issues with substance misuse. This is largely due to the stigma associated with the concepts of ‘addict’ and ‘addiction’. Public health folks, academics and practitioners have attempted to downplay the stigma of these words by using more neutral …
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By D&M Consultants The desire to mood and mind alter is part of human behaviour. Do you remember when you were a kid spinning around until you were so dizzy you fell over? Substances have been in human societies for millennia and fulfill numerous social and cultural functions, many have been forgotten in our modern …
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By D&M Consultants Problematic use of substances has a range of unfortunate consequences for individuals within society. For individuals who are also parents, there are significant consequences for their children. These consequences include physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual harms. This is a difficult ‘pill to swallow’ for parents who use substances, mostly because there is …
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