Welcome to our next Weekly Bulletin. If you would like us to include something on our weekly news, please get in touch by emailing [email protected].
Favor Recovery Walk
UK SMART Recovery will be attending the Favor Recovery Walk, this Saturday 14/09/2024. Colleen Lally and Matthew Frost will both be attending and will have a stall at the event. We hope you can join us and we would love to see you at our stall, please pop over and say hello!
An update for you from the Office for Life Science Addiction Mission.
OLS are working with the James Lind Alliance to run a Priority Setting Partnership – a process to identify and prioritise unanswered research questions in addiction. They are asking for the survey to be shared as far and wide as possible, and we’re keen to get good representation from across Scotland in the response. SMART Recovery is happy to support this survey.
The Addiction Mission is looking for the following people to answer a new short survey which will influence future research:
• People aged 16 or over with experience of addiction.
• Family, friends, or carers (age 16 or over) of anyone with experience of addiction.
• Health and social care professionals who work with individuals experiencing addiction.
Link to advanced online survey – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WHK29XH
Link to easy read online survey – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HVLKRFG
Link to JLA Website, Addiction Mission Priority Setting Partnership page, with access to survey: https://www.jla.nihr.ac.uk/priority…/addiction-mission/
Recovery Month Activities
Our North East & Yorkshire Community Coordinator was delighted to attend the Recovery Festival organised by Recovery Connections on Sunday 8th September. Despite the dreadful weather, everyone had a great time!
A poem written by a SMART Participant. – Josephine McCormick.
New Meetings
New Weekly SMART Recovery Meeting, Dalkeith
New Weekly SMART Recovery Meeting, Milford Haven
New Weekly Veterans Family and Friends Meeting, Online
New Weekly Family and Friends Meeting, Durham