C3 Foundation Europe and The Alcohol and Families Alliance

And wholeheartedly agree, with the last bit, about getting people help when they first start recognising the problem of consuming too much alcohol, too regularly. Not when it has got to the point, as you say, of wrecked homes, families and careers.

Hi Joanna 

This is great news , congratulations . 

?I have been going to my local centre once every two weeks alongside taking naltrexone . They have been very supportive and are now willing to look further into The Sinclair Method . My key worker and specialist doctor that covers a huge area in the South of England both have no knowledge or understanding about what it is and how it works . I told my key worker that I'm going to gather as much info and research I have gained and give it to them. She welcomed this and even gave me a file to put it all in . I told her I am on a mission to spread the word to help others . She's very interested to see how I develop over the next few months . I'm so pleased as it's only just now I can see a shift in their interest . She actually said she hopes this is successful and hopes that more of an awareness is built . Hooray !!

It's early days for me , week 12 I think and it's up and down , but I'm being patient, feel very lucky to have Naltrexone prescribed and am taking it day by day with not thinking too much . I definitely feel different and have mostly reduced my drinking but more than anything else my attitude has changed . 

Thanks for your support along the way Joanna x

Well done

Regards

JulieAnnex

Dear Joanna

I’m thrilled you & your colleagues have been recognised as significant, important and have a worthy voice in Alcohol treatment, policy and practice. Vickielou replied to something I posted on Patient (under an original post by Robin2015) and said that you might be able to help me to find an on-line prescriber for Selincro. I’ve been to my GP to talk about my drinking and asked about Selincro - even getting advice from my manager in NHS Substance Misuse services but at that time I had sober days and she suggested it wasn’t the right way to go. Since that time, I was made redundant from a job I loved, my drinking has increased to every night time (1-2 bottles wine) & I now I do sessional work in the Substance Misuse field. The GP practice wanted to refer me to Substance Misuse services in my local area as they have a policy to refer on to specialist services - but they are the very services that I link in with as a practitioner and I need (& love) to work. I wonder, do you know of an ethical, knowledgeable on-line prescriber please who I can be assessed by & get some help?  Also a group for psychological support? I really want to go to work with my head held high, to feel congruous about what I do & not carry around this burden of a secret any more. I’d be so appreciative of any help, thank you.