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Come along to ourcommemorative BBQ toremember loved onesand celebrate thosewho are tackling theirdrug and alcohol use.
We are inviting you, your riends
and amily to come along and join
in the activities which include:Paying tribute to someone youve
lost on our symbolic branch tree
Listen to service users
poems and readings
Hear stories o strength and hope
Meet new people
Share experiences
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for moreinfo call:0121 465 4930
Race for LifeOn 18th May 2011 a groupo well-intentioned SUGAR
and BDAAT would bekeep t anatics went toCannon Hill Park to takepart in the Race or Lie.
Once we parked on the ocial car park,
no one said it would be a hal mile walk to
the start o the race but we soldiered on.
We were joined by other riends
rom inclusion and Addaction and
patiently awaited the start. Following
an energetic warm up to the zumba,
the eager entrants had to have a rest
beore the main event began.
Joining over 2000 others the race
began, with our team soon making
up ground. A blistering 17 minutes
later the rst participant came past
the nishing line, not bad or 5km.
The rst o our group to nish wasChristine rom Inclusion in 44min.
Most o our team nished the
race in under an hour, which
was a great achievement.
The supporters gave all a
resounding cheer and a good time
was had by all.
Well done
to all who
took part inthe Race
or Lie and
the monies
they raised.
Lets see
i we can
be bigger
and better
next year.
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EditorsComments
Welcome to the rst editiono the Birmingham ServiceUser and Carer magazine.
Although it looks like it has been named
SUGAR, in act this is just a temporary
name or the magazine. Further down
you will see how you can be part o this
exciting new magazine, we are oering 40
in Love2Shop vouchers or the best name
suggested or the magazine, details below.
Inside this peer-led magazine you willnd powerul service user and carer
stories; inormation about recent and
uture events; useul and inormative
inormation about Birminghams treatment
and support options and much more.
It has taken what seems like a lietime
to get to this point and the creation is
the culmination o hard work by service
users and carers across Birmingham.
In September 2010 the BirminghamDrug and Alcohol Action Team (BDAAT)
refected on their User Involvement
provision and came to realise that it was
very limited. BDAAT took the decision
to enhance the service user and carer
provision by bringing together a group o
service users who were interested in the
development o involvement, which they
like to now call active participation.
Following our months o hard work, therst Birmingham Recovery Forum (BRF)
was attended by about 35 service users
who took ownership and led on its uture
direction. Once the steering group was not
needed, it was dissolved with a view to
creating a pan-Birmingham User and Carer
Involvement Team.
This team, now called SUGAR (Service
User Group About Recovery) has in the
ew months o its existence assisted in
the continual growth and development
o BRF, which now has an average
attendance o 60 members; set upmultiple events, including Carers Day
(Pampering Sessions), International
Remembrance Day, World Drugs Day
City Bus Tour (in partnership with BDAAT);
and created this magazine which is
only part o the ever growing recovery
movement happening in Birmingham.
We hope you enjoy the very rst edition o
this magazine, created by service users
and carers or service users and carers.
I you wish to contribute an article or
story; inormation or poem; recipe or
anything you think has relevance to the
service user and carer community, then
please email [email protected] with the
subject newsletter or phone the SUGAR
Involvement Team on 0121 465 4936.
CompetitionTo win the 40 Love2Shop vouchers
please email your suggestion for
the name of the Service User and
Carer magazine to hob.brsuf@nhs.
net with the subject newsletter
competition along with your reasons
why you think your entry should be
the winner. Alternatively send your
entry to: SUGAR Involvement Team,
Summer Hill House, 18-21 Summerhill
Terrace, Ladywood, Birmingham, B1
3RA. Closing date for competitionentries is Friday 26th August 2011.
If you have any questions regarding
the competition or would like to know
more about how to become involved
then you can phone the SUGAR
Involvement Team on 0121 465 4936.
BRF and SUGAR
Recovery is Sweet
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Jaynes StoryI grew up with alcohol & drugtaking rom a very young age.
I was around 6 years old when I becameaected by my mums drinking.
She would come home rom the pub
emotional & upset. I would instantly start
to eel like I had to help my mum, possibly
heal her. (this was to go on or years) she
would play one particular record called
wheres your mama gone my mom always
promised she was going to leave us.
This being mysel (oldest) sister and two
younger brothers. I was in charge o themand my mom. I became the head carer o
the amily. I was obsessed with my mom
leaving. The more my mom drank
the more violent she became I I
overcooked potatoes or meat, didnt clean
foors or make beds properly. Looker ater
my siblings properly she would beat me.
She always had hangovers which made
my mom horrendous o a morning. I
dreaded my mom combing my hair. The
pain was excruciating, I would cry, silently
as, i she saw or heard me crying she
would beat me or it. I always dreaded
going home ater school. I I heard her
arguing with my abusive violent step
dad I would ll with great ear. My heart
would pound. Id do anything to
stay away rom any responsibility
concerning our household.
I never had any peace o mind,
even at night while sleeping,my parents would wake me to
ask why didnt I clean under the
cooker or ridge properly as my step
dad would plant matchsticks to see i
I had swept and mopped. It reminded
me o the lm Freddie Kruger, cuz even
when you slept, there was no escape!
To this day I never have a ull nights
sleep without waking at least twice.
Johnss blog:hhtp://wiredin.org.uk/
member/prole/3095
My life storyThere came a point in mylie where I ound myselat a complete standstill.
I had no beer, no money and I was
desperate or a ag, completely
isolated rom the outside world. The
only people I mixed with were other
people in the same situation as me,i not worse. I was in a hostel; I had
somehow managed to gain the title
o alcoholic.I was a successful
medical professional, with
a nice house, car and a new
born son. Then, right beore my
eyes this was all taken away rom
me. This was all due to my excessive
drinking behavior. I ound it harder
and harder to hold down a job, and
even harder to hold onto my wieand inant son. Having tried several
times to stop drinking with no
proessional help, I sought help rom
several treatment units. None o these
attempts worked and I eventually
came to terms with the knowledge
that I would always be a waste o
space. I made a choice to try and
change one last try. I approached
Aquarius and screamed out
or help. I was reerred to ParkHouse Birmingham, a residential
treatment unit. On the 1st February
2011, I was admitted and the team
there managed to give me back my
sel-condence and something else
that I had lost many years ago. My
sel esteem. And my personality.
Jayne
John
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SUGAR(Service User Groups About Recovery), hasdeveloped rom the organic growth o Service
User Involvement within Birmingham.and created this magazine which isonly part o the ever growing recoverymovement happening in Birmingham.
SUGAR is very much integratedpartnership working at its best. Not onlydoes it incorporate all service user andcarer groups across Birmingham, but alsoworks in partnership now with providersand generic services. User Involvement orActive Participation is now integral to
all BDAAT processes including TreatmentRedesign as well as contributingto Executive reports beore they arereceived by the Joint CommissioningGroup (JCG) - the stakeholdersthat ratiy all decisions regardingtreatment provision in Birmingham.
SUGAR has achieved a huge amount,but none o this would have beenpossible without the partnershipthat is SUGAR and BDAAT.
If you would like to contact SUGAR:Please call the Involvement Team on0121 465 4936 or go towww.bdaat.co.uk/involvement
Alternatively call Mark Spooner on07540668594 [email protected].
For urther inormation on the BirminghamRecovery Forum (BRF) see page 15.
We would just like to thank everyone who has been
part o this exciting journey: including all members o
the SUGAR team; everyone at Birmingham Recovery
Forum; everyone who contributes to the runningo all Service User Groups and Mutual Aid Group
across Birmingham; all interested and participatory
workers and services; all o you who have taken the
step to ride the wave that is Recovery ; and last but
defnitely not least, Sarah Feeley, Acting Involvement
Team Leader and Parveen Akhtar, Strategic Lead,
BDAAT without whose support and genuine belie
in User Involvement / Active Participation
/ Integrated Partnership Working,
none o this could have happened.
In September 2010 the Birmingham Drugand Alcohol Action Team (BDAAT) refectedon their User Involvement provisionand came to realise that it was almostnon-existent. BDAAT took the decisionto enhance the service user and carerprovision by bringing together a groupo service users who were known to beenthusiastic and passionate about thedevelopment o involvement, which they
like to now call active participation.From a group o our service users whorst met in November 2010, a steeringgroup was created with the expresspurpose o developing a orum or serviceusers and carers. The steering grouphad support rom BDAAT (who providedmeeting rooms; admin support; accessto oces; and other assistance wheresought) throughout the entire developmentand implementation process, and the
steering group quickly grew into a teamo teen service users and carers whosemembership represents the diverse serviceuser groups within drugs, alcohol andcarers across the whole o Birmingham.
Following our months o hard work, therst Birmingham Recovery Forum (BRF)was attended by about 35 service userswho took ownership and led on its uturedirection. Once the steering group was notneeded, it was dissolved with a view tocreating a pan-Birmingham User and CarerInvolvement Team. This team, now calledSUGAR (Service User Group AboutRecovery) has in the ew months o itsexistence assisted in the continual growthand development o BRF, which now hasan average attendance o 60 members;set up multiple events, including CarersDay (Pampering Sessions), InternationalRemembrance Day, World Drugs Day City Bus Tour (in partnership with BDAAT);
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Visions!I saw your vision upon the wall,Because youre the fairest of them all,But when your vision disappears,My heart fills up with love and tears.By Dean OConnor.
After Leaving DetoxJohn Paul Gill-Barron
Ater leaving/nishing detox at Park HouseI ound mysel in a huge and scary world. Ihad become accustomed to the world as weknow it with a drunken mind. But now seeingit with a sober mind or the rst time in manyyears. I began to eel a huge Wow actor coming on.
It seemed that everywhere I turned, I could see alcohol in shops, on TV, bill boards and
even strangers chatting on the bus/train. The whole world seemed obsessed with Alcohol.
It seemed to take me days to be able to adjust and ocus on what I had set out
to do each day without coming across Alcohol and experiencing some orm o
craving. It took me even longer to be able to cope with these cravings.
John
Practical Steps we can take ollowing Detox and/or Rehab:
FindsupportgroupssuchasSMART,POINTS,NICSorNA/AA/CA
ReferyourselftoAftercare
Getinvolved(BRF/SUGARseearticlesinthismagazine)
For help on taking any o these steps please call the SUGAR
Involvement Team on 0121 465 4936.
Recovery is Sweet!
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Inter Agency Football
Results 2011 (Sam Marsh A-Team)Friday 6th May saw the second A-Team ootballtournament take place and more importantly aday or networking and making new riends.
The day was a great success with nearly
200 people rom dierent agencies able
to meet and mingle while watching the
action with many individuals able to orm
contacts and hopeully a better
understanding o agencies
and the work they undertake.
The day was organised
to bring service providers
together to get to know
each other and enable
partnership working.
It was a cracking turnout
and a good day was had by
all, hope to see everyone
there again next year!
(Funding permitted) A bigthank you goes out to all
those who attended.
Link to A Teams article and pictures:
http://www.alcoholservices-ateam.org.uk
The sun sparkled as 12 teams rom drug
and alcohol treatment services as well
as service user groups kicked o the
inter-agency ootball tournament 2011.
Four groups o three
teams battled it out
on the pitch and
eventually a winner
rom each group
was able to contest
the semi nals. A big
thank you is given to
all those players who
lled in or teams who
were short o players.
In a really tight game
the tournament hosts,the A-Team just scraped
past Swanswell B team
or a place in the nal.
They were joined by Start-Again who
narrowly beat Sia A in the other semi
nal ollowing a nail biting penalty shoot
out that went through to sudden death.
With everybody relaxed ater the buet
a repeat o last years nal took placebetween the A-Team and Start-Again.
Two tired teams battled out the nal,
the score was tied at 3-3 at ull time
and so a penalty shoot out took place
where the A-team managed to win.
Beore a F.A investigation is launched, it
should be noted that the A-Team had a
little help rom SMART and Turning Point
or which we are extremely grateul.
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I have now made a decide I
want no more to do with you,
I want you out o my lie, I willnever orgive you or all the pain
and hurt you have caused me.
The list could goon or ever, but
three things will always stick in
my mind, your dad ring which
I wanted you to have, I had it
altered or you the next day you
pawned it, I had to pay to get it
back, then you stole it rom my
house and pawned it yet again,
now have the ring, you will neverget it. The second thing just
three weeks be or your dad
died, you came to our house
asking or money when we said
no you started to get very nasty,
I throw you out, how could you
do this when you know how ill
your dad was and only a short
time let. The third thing is your
two son, one o the things have
to come to terms with I wont
see them growing up, I love
those two little boys but through
you they wont be in my lie.
This is were we are now 12 Jan
11, hope this year I can start
getting some think into my lie
as your dad gave me lie, with
the most wonderul git, one o
his kidney just 18 months beore
I lost him. I wish the years couldhave been dierent, but they
cant be changes, only the
uture, get help please, get your
lie back on track or me your
son and mostly or your sel.
I do still love thatboy I once knew.Mom
Carers Groups forFamily and Friends
of Substance UsersAre you concerned aboutsomeones drug use? Are yousupporting someone to makea change in their drug use?
Aquarius Family Service provide groups so that
carers o substance users can meet each other,
oer each other support and share ideas.
We currently have groups available in
Edgbaston, Highgate & Washwood Heath.
I you would like to meet other carers at any
o these groups please contact us or dates
and times o these groups. We have groups
that run in the daytime and evening.
We are also looking to set up other carers groups
around Birmingham so i you would like a group
in your local area please get in touch with us.
Ask or Mags, Ed, Suleman, Diane or Richard
Aquarius Family Service
Tel. 0121 414 0888
BirminghamCarers Centre
The Carers Centre operates rom 09.00-17.00, Mon-Fri,
the doors open to the public between 9.30-16.30.
The carers telephone helpline 0121 675 8000 is
open rom 10:00-16:45, ater hours please leave amessage and someone will call you back within 24hrs.
Call: the Carers Helpline on: 0121 675 8000
Visit: the Birmingham Carers Centre, 130
Colmore Row, Birmingham, B3 3AP
Email: [email protected]
Attend one of our special events: For more ino on
http://www.birminghamcarerscentre.org.uk/
In partnership with:
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Paul Humphries StoryI stopped smoking & injecting heroin & crack about3+ years ago, and although Ive always drank a lot
since stopping the drugs, my drinking has spiralled outo control & replaced everything else. I still take 80mlmethadone everyday as Ive done or a long time, butits the drink thats had the biggest impact on my health,so much so my liver and kidneys are in a bad way.
Two years ago I started thinking about lie beore drugs and all those bad years & all the
shit Ive put my amily through. I suggested to my dad we start going out shing again
like we used to do when I was younger! In act it was about the time I started down
the wrong path at 14 years I lost interest! At rst I think I was just thinking about going,
but I kept asking & he said OK lets go. Since then weve been going everyweek between May Sept & its been great! Getting out & about, seeing the
countryside, enjoying the good weather & most o all catching some big sh! But
most important its shown me I can enjoy lie without drink and drugs! Again!
Withyou!WhenyouandIarefarapart,Canafrien
dmendabrokenheart.
Ineedyou,yesIreally
do,
Sleepissweetandso
areyou.
Allyouare,isabloomin
grose,
Nightishere,soImustc
lose.
Withcare,readthefirstwordofe
veryline,
Youwillthereaquestio
nfind.
By Dean OConnor.
STARPOE
M
WINNE
ROF
VOUCHER20
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Park HouseAllotment Programme
Park House in conjunction with Inclusion CommunityDrug Team (CDT) and DATUS have successullysecured two allotments in Northeld Birmingham or theuse o service users o these services (and potentiallyother stable individuals rom other services).We have started this spring to develop
the sites ater securing project unding
rom the Birmingham Drug Alcohol Action
Team & National Treatment Agency (NTA).
The programme will allow service users
to contribute to a community project as
part o their treatment, carrying out normal
everyday tasks that are hugely rewarding
and enjoyable. Participants will have the
chance to learn new skills in organic
horticulture, learning about growing ood
rom seed to plate. The ood will then
become part o a Healthy Eating the
cheap & easy way programme with
service users learning 3 ingredientcooking lie skills and good nutrition.
Service users are involved in all
aspects o the allotment rom the initial
design and layout o the plot, through
planning, implementation, propagation,
harvesting, preparing and eating the
produce grown. Vegetables grown are
to be used or cooking at the centre
with any surplus being sold locally.
Surplus crops can now be sold andthere are many possible outlets or this,
or example we are planning to run a
armers market crop share stall which sells
allotment surplus. This will become part o
the Park House and Community Drug Team
(CDT) employability programme teaching
business and entrepreneurial skills; giving
employment tasters with the aim to give a
starting hand or service user businesses.
Other initiatives will include supplying
organisations such as Jamie Olivers 15
restaurant and other community groups.
The allotment is designed and maintained
using Permaculture techniques and is an
organic system.
Permaculture is
a creative approach to
designing landscapes
that work with nature rather than against
it. Permaculture seeks to create beautiul
living systems that provide ood (and other
essentials) or people in sustainable ways.
Permaculture is based on 3 ounding
principles o Earth Care, Fair Share and
People Care and these principles underpinall design decisions. It combines age-old
indigenous wisdom with new insights
emerging rom movements or sustainability
around the world. Permaculture is a
dynamic, eclectic, and creative discipline
being used all over the world.
Marcus Parsons &Eleanor Hoard
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The DifferenceI got up early one morning and rushed right into the day;
I had so much to accomplish, I didnt have time to pray.
Problems just tumbled about me and grew heavier with each task;
Why doesnt God help me, I wondered; He answered, You didnt ask.
I wanted to see joy and beauty, but the day toiled on, gray and bleak;
I wondered why God didnt show me - He said, But you didnt seek.
I tried to come into Gods presence; I used all my keys at the lock;
God gently and lovingly chided, My child, you didnt knock.
I woke up early this morning and paused beore entering the day;
I had so much to accomplish that I had to take time to pray.
by Grace L. Naessens
Debbies DenWeve run two Debbies Den events
where service users can pitch their ideas
or new services or new ways o doing
things to a Swanswell panel including
Debbie Bannigan, Swanswell CEO, a
Swanswell Director and two Swanswell
service users. Several good ideas arebeing worked on at the moment. One idea
three service users pitched to Debbie is
a ootball project to help them get t and
well. This idea is being developed urther
with the aim o helping service users keep
t as well as orming a ootball team.
Social EnterpriseSwanswell has set up a social enterprise
scheme where service users have been
trained to become therapists in several
complementary therapies including
auricular acupuncture, massage and Reiki.
Swanswell is assisting the therapists to
take up contracts to deliver complementary
therapies to local businesses and
workplaces. These individuals could
ultimately set up their own business.
Get InvolvedThere are a number o dierent ways service
users can get involved with Swanswell.
I service users are currently accessing
treatment or support rom Swanswell,
they can speak to their worker and nd
out how to get involved. I someone has
previously been involved with Swanswellservices and their treatment is complete,
they can still contact us and come along
to a service user involvement meeting.
We value our service users contribution
and we know that it improves the work
that we do and is o benet to current
and uture service users. There are other
meetings that take place at Swanswell
including sta and service users that people
can come along to and events where VIPvisitors meet sta and service users.
I you, or someone you know, would like to
nd out more, ask a Swanswell worker or
please call Stephen Cox on 0121 233 7400
or email [email protected]
Stephen CoxService User
Engagement Worker
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The nice to do list...Take a 10-30 minute walk everyday. And while you walk, smile. Itis the ultimate anti-depressant.
Sit in silence or a least 10 minuteseach day. Buy a lock i you have to.
Record late night tv programmesand get more sleep.
When you wake up in the morningcomplete the ollowing statement,
My purpose is to x today.Live with the 3 EsEnergy,Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
Play more games and read morebooks than you did in 2010.
Health & well-being
Make time to practice meditation, yoga,tai chi, and a prayer. They provide uswith daily uel or our busy lives.
Spend time with people over theage o 70 and under the age o 6.
Dream more while you are awake.
Eat more oods that grow on treesand plants and eat less ood thatis manuactured in plants.
Clear clutter rom your house, yourcar, your desk and let new andfowing energy into your lie.
Try to make at least threepeople smile each day.
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Birmingham Recovery ForumInformation Article - Birmingham Recovery Forum(BRF) is a meeting place or individuals who have, or have
had, substance misuse issues including illicit drugs, alcohol,legal highs and over the counter / prescription medicines. Itis equally a place or carers, relatives and concerned others.
drug and alcohol use will only be tackledeectively in partnership and through acohesive and co-ordinated multi-agencyapproach to the issue. In other words,we encourage all services within thetreatment system to work together, aswell as the wide array o generic servicesthat operate within the Birmingham area.
Service User Involvement in Birminghamalso ollows this integrated approachby encouraging all service user groupsand service user representatives rom allservices to be part o the pan-BirminghamInvolvement Team (SUGAR). This hasbeen successul in that the current teamrepresents a great proportion o this diversegroup and is consistently growing.
We believe in the undamental right o
drug / alcohol users and their carers tobe treated equally, non-judgementallyand with dignity and respect.
For further information or to contactthe Birmingham Recovery Forum youcan email us on [email protected] text RECOVERY to 07540668594. Ifyou prefer to phone then please callMark Spooner on 07540668594 or theInvolvement Team on 0121 465 4936.
Its held on the last Wed o every
month 11am-2pm. Light rereshmentsprovided and travel expensesreimbursed. BRF is held at SummerHill House, 18-21 Summerhill Terrace,Ladywood, Birmingham, B1 3RA.
The orum is open to all current serviceusers, which includes those who haverecently let treatment and those whomay not have yet engaged withtreatment. It is also open to anycarers, relatives or concerned others.
Recovery is Sweet
The orum is solely owned and directedby its members thereore making itinteresting, relevant, transparent andinclusive. Although there exists a pan-Birmingham Involvement Team calledSUGAR Service User Groups AboutRecovery (see SUGAR article) , the unctiono this group, in respect o the orum,is only to acilitate its smooth runningaccording to the will o its members.
There are many functions that theforum provides including: Sharingo knowledge and experience (Thereare no better individuals than ServiceUsers / Carers who have the experience,knowledge and understanding o addictionand the treatment system). Promotinggroups and events (There are a vastnumber o Service User Groups, Peer
Support, Mutual Aid, Atercare and eventsaround Birmingham. It is not alwayseasy to nd the right one. The orumattempts to be a central hub rom whichall groups and events, relevant to ServiceUsers and Carers, can be highlighted).
Effective consultation Raising Issues Networking Training Invited Speakers
Much more besidesThe orum is supported nancially by theBDAAT but is completely independent romit. However we aim to work in partnershipwith the BDAAT and all stakeholderstowards the common goal o achieving aneective treatment system and recoveryrom addiction or all who want this.
The orum maintains that there is nosingle solution to Birminghams complexsubstance problem. We believe that
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PHONE
Datesindiary
BirminghamRecover
y
Forumdates:
July27th,August31st
,September
28th,October26
th,November30th,&
December28th
at:SummerHillHouse,2
3
Summerhillterrace,Ladyw
ood.
BDAATCarersDay:
18thJune10am-2pm
at:SumerHillHouse,23
Summerhillterrace,Ladyw
ood.
WorldDrugsDay:
22nd-25thJune.Abus
willbetravelling
aroundBirminghamhotsp
ots
at:Sparkhill,Hodgehill,Nechells/
AstonandWeoleyCastle.
International
RemembranceDay:
Thurs21stJuly11am-2
pm
at:SummerHillHouse,1
8-21
SummerhillTerrace,Ladyw
ood,
BirminghamB13RA.
NotesNEXTISSU
E:
NormanImlahCare
Service(NICS)
InterviewswithDavid
SkidmorefromNTAand
NicolaBenge,ChairofJCG
Nicetodolistcontinu
ed
Morestories&articles
SinglePointofContact(SPOC):08000730817Foranyquestions aboutdrugs /alcoholtreatmentand referrals
SUGARInvolvementTeam:01214654936NormanImlahCareService:01214654936AquariusFamilyService:01214140888
POINTS:01216758004
ACHIEVEMENTAFRAID
CONFUSEDCONSCIOUS
N D R D O E J D S A A A H
I D E S U F N O C R R C U
L S E S A D D Y Y H E H U
D O O T S R E D N U S I M
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R Y T N L I O T O R A E R
F H A P P Y L I S C N M U
A O G E L I C V V I T E D
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S T V O D Y R E V O C E R
E X C I T E DD V H D E T
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