by Robin Lefever | Mar 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
We have the pleasure in having members from our French clinical team giving a talk at the esteemed iCAAD in Paris Lucy and Fran are kindly organising a stand for us here and Lisa and Philippe will be giving a talk. The field of addiction it as fragmented in France as...
by Robin Lefever | Jan 22, 2018 | Featured, Volunteer Community
I experienced my first true existential crisis in early recovery. After removing my emotional substance crux, I was left with the horrifying prospect of ‘being’ without booze. Re-learning how to be sober is sufficiently complex, let alone how ‘to be’ present and...
by Robin Lefever | Jun 6, 2017 | In the News, Withersdane Hall
One of the things I have learnt in recovery is just how much love and support there is for me from my family – although I haven’t always been able to see it. And it turns out the same goes for the animal kingdom too. At Withersdane Hall our grounds are...
by Robin Lefever | Apr 30, 2015 | Director's Pen, In the News, Treatment, Withersdane Hall
I was very sad to read the recent Scottish study that half the women who died from drugs last year had children under 16. This illustrates the terrible ripple out effects of addiction. Unsurprisingly opiates were implicated in 3/4 of cases but in nearly all cases...
