Third sector and NHS healthcare experts to unite at historic summit and pledge to deal with the escalating drug related death crisis. A public health emergency has been steadily building in England for a decade. In 2020, 4,312 people died from drug-related poisoning and drug misuse, the highest death toll…

At Collective Voice we are seeking to appoint three new independent trustees to join our board. This is a really exciting opportunity to help lead a national policy alliance at a crucial point in our field’s history. As the national alliance of drug and alcohol treatment and recovery charities we…

Where we have come from As is often the case, support for people with drug and alcohol problems defies easy categorisation. It does not fit easily into a box marked ‘health’, ‘community development’ or any other label. …

Today’s announcement shows the Government is serious about righting the wrong of nearly a decade of disinvestment in England’s drug treatment system. We are proud to have worked together to consistently call for this change which has the potential to change the lives of thousands of people and their families. …

The context Images Isn’t it interesting how frequently as human beings we turn to metaphor? Sometimes these images are so embedded in the everyday that we don’t see them for what they are. We talk about ‘just ploughing on’, ‘turning over a new leaf’ and much more. Why? Because we don’t feel, think…

A new Drug Strategy offers the chance for the Government to right the wrongs of disinvestment by funding Dame Carol Black’s rigorous, costed policy programme. The necessary resource must be provided to bring a new generation of people in need into recovery, save thousands of lives, reduce crime and make…

The 2020/21 drug and alcohol treatment data released today covers a uniquely challenging period in our field’s history. People facing drug or alcohol addiction, already a vulnerable and oftentimes isolated group, had to endure a global pandemic that radically altered how they could receive support. Some of the trends identified…

As part of my system’s change Basecamp course with School of System Change at Forum for the Future I promised myself I’d capture in a journal insights about leadership and systems that struck me whilst staring out of the window rather then let them slip back into the depths of…

The Office for National Statistics has released the latest numbers of deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales in 2020. Together with the recent statistics on alcohol-related deaths and drinking trends during the pandemic, they reveal the true extent of the suffering happening in some our most deprived…