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Join the Women’s Treatment Working Group webinar tomorrow (11 March) exploring how lived experience and role modelling in residential services is giving voice to marginalised women and strengthening care for all. Find out more and sign up here: events.teams.microsoft.com/e… #IWD
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We're delighted to announce that we're hosting another webinar, this time hearing about the latest academic research on how we can best support people using #benzodiazepines. #Addiction #MentalHealth #Drugs #Alcohol
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Attendees will not only have the chance to hear the latest on two key research projects, but will also be able to ask questions and discuss how we can take these recommendations forward to improve services and support.
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We encourage people to attend across the full range of roles that might influence the design and delivery of treatment services, whether in commissioning or management roles, or prescribers and direct support workers. Find out more and register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/e…
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Join the Women’s Treatment Working Group webinar on 11 March exploring how lived experience and role modelling in residential services is giving voice to marginalised women and strengthening care for all. Find out more and sign up here: events.teams.microsoft.com/e… #GiveToGain #IWD
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Spring has almost sprung and the first London Recovery Network webinar date of 2026 has landed! Topics include the importance of instilling purpose as part of recovery, neurodiversity & relationships support & updates on digital mapping, event training & upcoming events 1/2
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Register your place here: events.teams.microsoft.com/e… #London #Recovery #Alcohol #Drugs #Addiction 2/2

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Alt text keeps crashing the app, so we weren't able to include it on the first post in this thread. The image shown is a logo representing two leaves, one green and one yellow, with text below reading "London Recovery Network". Sorry for any inconvenience.
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Implementing the sentencing review will require a modest investment that will provide rapid and sustained returns in reducing reoffending, and lessen future pressure on prison capacity.
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Charities are uniquely placed to help the Government deliver on its missions, and we are already delivering positive change for individuals and communities across the country – but we will achieve even more if the Government provides leadership.
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As Dame Carol Black said in 2021, “Government faces an unavoidable choice: invest in tackling the problem or keep paying for the consequences.”  This is an urgent call for the current Government to make the right choice & tackle problems related to alcohol & other drugs head on.
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Today, Collective Voice is outlining the five essential steps we think the Government needs to take on #alcohol and other #drugs to ensure substance use treatment is accessible and effective for everyone who could benefit from it. 🧵 #Addiction #PublicHealth #MentalHealth
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This plan must be developed in collaboration with the third sector and others to ensure more people who need support with their substance use can be treated in the community rather than being sent to prison.
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5. The Government should develop a detailed and fully-resourced plan to deliver the recommendations of the Independent Sentencing Review.
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This has been clearly recommended by both Dame Carol Black in a recent review and the Justice Select Committee’s 2025 report into drugs in prisons, as well as a recent National Audit Office report.
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4. The Government should commission substance use treatment & recovery services in prison directly with the provider, separately from other health services, in partnership local councils & prison governors as well as health, with pathways to both community & residential services
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We have a clear blueprint laid out by Dame Carol Black: regional or subregional commissioning. The Government should urgently convene an expert working group of commissioners, residential & community providers & people with lived / living experience to develop an agreed plan.
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3. Residential treatment must be an accessible option in every part of the country, in line with published evidence and Government guidance. The current system of funding and procurement isn’t working – it’s an inefficient postcode lottery.
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