After struggling with alcoholism, one woman shares her experience of recovery and highlights why native speaking community groups are so important for migrant wellbeing.
Addiction
Stop smoking pilot launched for people experiencing homelessness in Sheffield
Photo: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust A new stop smoking pilot has been launched in Sheffield to help people experiencing homelessness access tobacco treatment support. The scheme is being run by the tobacco treatment team at Sheffield Teaching...
Is decriminalisation the answer to the UK’s addiction crisis?
Photo: kravaivan11 on Pixabay Drug decriminalisation has been massively spoken about recently, especially with elections and political polls, but what does it actually mean and how would it change society and people’s relationship with drugs? The topic of drug...
From drug dens to New Year Honours: Paul Hannaford’s fight to protect next generation
After 22 years of drug use, prison and gang involvement, Paul Hannaford was given days to live. Now nearly 20 years sober, he tours UK schools warning young people about addiction, gangs and knife crime.
How Gen Z is redefining recovery through #sobertok
As the digital-native Generation Z bypasses the almost 100-year-old blueprint of Alcoholics Anonymous, recovery is moving out of private church basements and onto the public feed. Uproute speaks to Baelie, a creator whose raw, unfiltered vulnerability is redefining what it means to heal online.
Creative workshops for drug and alcohol addiction launch in Scotland
New workshops that aim to help those adversely affected by addiction launch in Scotland
5 iconic musicians who traded the party for sobriety
For decades, the industry pushed a toxic lie: that great art requires self-destruction. From Eminem to Florence Welch, five massive icons prove that total clarity didn’t dull their creative edge – it saved their lives and careers.
Brain changes may help explain alcohol addiction recovery, study finds
Researchers say brain signals are linked to learning and reward, which may offer clues about how people recover from alcohol dependence.
‘I thought the radio was talking to me’: inside a manic breakdown
What happens when the one thing you trust most,your own mind,starts to betray you? Writer Horatio Clare takes us inside the experience of bipolar mania, where delusions feel purposeful rather than chaotic. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Clare recounts how he slowly confronted reality, rebuilt his life, and ultimately found recovery. His story highlights not just the challenges of the condition, but the resilience and hope that come with overcoming it.
Rock bottom: The strength of willpower
JJ Glanville’s gambling addiction began before he was legally allowed to gamble, at age 17. Now 29, JJ reflected on the depths of his addiction with me.
Interview with Forward Leeds on harm reduction
Uproute talks to forward Leeds on the work that they do with substance users.
‘Someone saw me as human’: The former prisoner who turned trauma into poetry
43 year old Chris Lynam is no stranger to pain. He has experienced and suffered from drug addiction, homelessness, psychosis, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and incarceration. He now is a successful poet, activist, mentor and speaker.
How a culinary icon rebuilt his life through writing
Despite spending decades stuck in cycles of addiction and despair, Anthony Bourdain quietly pursued his dreams of writing, a tool of escapism that eventually allowed him to rebuild his life and become a legend in the culinary world.