Ballymun Recovery Month
Ballymun Recovery was born out of the idea that recovery is a possibility for everyone. Ballymun has a strong recovery community and we wanted to celebrate this and also increase the visibility of recovery in Ballymun, challenge the stigma of addiction and highlight available recovery options.
Recovery 2022
Ballymun Recovery Podcast
Join us each Sunday for a new podcast celebrating Recovery in Ballymun and challenging the stigma of addiction and highlighting available recovery options here in the Ballymun. Your host Jimmy Bell chats to different service in community to help recovery.
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Peter is also a Ballymun Resident who also works at providing recovery options and interventions among other things.
This week’s conversations are centred around current drug issues in the local community with a focus on crack cocaine use in Ballymun. On the one hand we have a growing recovery movement in Ballymun, which is quite visible especially in Recovery month and on the other hand we have a persistent drug use issue which is also quite visible in the ballymun community. We know this drug issue can have a negative impact and massive consequences on the individualuser, the family, and the community. Some people would say that the current drug problems and impacts, especially the widespread use of crack cocaine are more serious than what happened in the heroin epidemic. We discuss this idea.
This weeks episode is about how Drug services have evolved over time. We talked with a local Drug service provider about how they support the community and the individual, how services developed using a needs basis approach, to fill gaps in service provision.
We also chatted with our longest formed Drug service BYAP about how they work with clients and the level of support people can need when accessing a recovery intervention.
We also talked about some of the successes and programs that have been provided for people in our community over a long period of time.
Highlighting recovery options is a key message that recovery month aims to achieve during the month of September. This weeks podcast provides the listener with a wide variety of recovery options that aim to highlight specific recovery options available.
Two ballymun locals Ray smith and Lisa McCarthy share their story and journey of recovery and discuss in detail what recovery means to them. Some of the star project staff and services users also answer the question of what recovery means to them. Also each week we share 2 recovery stories. Ballymun Recovery stories is a collection of very different individual stories showing how locals became addicted, their personal struggles, and how they reached recovery. Anybody wanting a deeper understanding of addiction these stories carry a powerful message of addiction, recovery, hope and inspiration!
Recovery 2021
Recovery Stories
Ballymun Recovery stories is a collection of thirteen very different stories showing how they became addicted, their personal struggles, and how they reached recovery. It is a must-read for those wanting a deeper understanding of addiction and those in the throes of addiction as this book is full of hope and inspiration!
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