{"id":227,"date":"2022-03-31T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverytoday.co.uk\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2022-03-31T12:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:05:52","slug":"accessing-treatment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/recoverytoday.co.uk\/?page_id=227","title":{"rendered":"Accessing Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived at \u2018Pinel House\u2019 regional alcoholic unit, Warlingham Park, Surrey, on the 27<sup>th<\/sup> October 1976. It was a remarkable institution, founded in 1952 by Dr Max Glatt, in the grounds of a psychiatric hospital.\u2019Pinel\u2019 was run by the NHS. At that time there was no other treatment service in the UK. Alcoholics Anonymous arrived in the UK in 1948.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Referrals came from all over the country, and on Tuesday afternoons there was an open clinic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Pinel House closed it\u2019s doors in 1993,when the Care in the community act was established, heralding the closure of all the psychiatric hospitals in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I was a Care Manager in the 90\u2019s for Croydon and other London boroughs. This involved assessing clients for treatment in tier 4 services,(Residential Rehab). Since then the situation has worsened, many treatment centres in the public sector have closed due to government cutbacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">However, now, residential treatment is available, through the Substance Misuse team, or an alcohol\/drug service in your local borough, such as CGL (Change, Grow Live) Turning Point, and Phoenix Futures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If anyone is having difficulty, or have questions regarding accessing services, please contact me at <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><a style=\"color: #993366;\" href=\"mailto:jim@recoverytoday.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jim@recoverytoday.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u00a0Jim<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived at \u2018Pinel House\u2019 regional alcoholic unit, Warlingham Park, Surrey, on the 27th October 1976. It was a remarkable institution, founded in 1952 by Dr Max Glatt, in the grounds of a psychiatric hospital.\u2019Pinel\u2019 was run by the NHS. At that time there was no other treatment service in the UK. Alcoholics Anonymous arrived&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-227","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverytoday.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverytoday.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverytoday.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverytoday.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverytoday.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/recoverytoday.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/recoverytoday.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverytoday.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}