Rehabilitation
Russell Brand shouldn’t speak for everyone on drugs policies
So because it worked for him, Russell Brand is persuaded that abstinence-based recovery, rather than reliance on methadone, is the best way to help those with the “greedy disease” of opiate dependence.
By Susie McLean | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 16 August 2012 at 12:00 am
The road to recovery: What happens to people who don’t have the same support?
I’ve not written this blog for a while, principally because I’ve recovered sufficient fitness to return to my day job.
Being a full time financial journalist at a time of global financial turmoil would be exhausting enough were I not taking a pharmacological soup of different nuclear strength drugs to fend off the pain I still have to live with.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 10:24 am
The medical profession has a strangely schizophrenic attitude when it comes to pain
For the last few months I’ve been learning all about pain.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Wednesday, 7 December 2011 at 1:54 pm
The cuts are causing me agony
The trouble with people like our esteemed Chancellor and his Chief Secretary to the Treasury is that they’re very clever people. Or at least they’re surrounded by people who tell them they’re clever.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Thursday, 10 November 2011 at 3:28 pm
The Road to Recovery: An everyday tale of wheelchairs, raspberry jam & Campbell’s soup tasters
One thing being disabled has taught me is that there’s much more to Campbell’s soups than meets the eye.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Thursday, 27 October 2011 at 10:52 am
The road to recovery: The hardest part is over
One thing that has always annoyed me is when people say “of course the hard part is yet to come” when they’ve quite obviously cleared the most challenging obstacles they face.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Thursday, 20 October 2011 at 9:23 am
The Road to Recovery: No wonder the NHS is strapped for cash…
…I’ve got a small fortune’s worth of specialist equipment no one seems to want back.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Tuesday, 4 October 2011 at 1:14 pm
The Road to Recovery: Welcome to Bizarro World
Back in the day Superman used to have an alter-ego and sometime antagonist called Bizarro. Bizarro lived on a world that was basically a weird mirror image of the DC Comics universe. (Yes, yes, I’m comic book guy off the Simpsons. But not as tubby.)
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Thursday, 22 September 2011 at 6:00 am
The Road to Recovery: “Hooray, I’ve got crutches. But it’s the NHS that needs supporting.”
It’s hard to describe just how thrilling the apparently mundane event of receiving a pair of crutches was for me. I’d equate it with passing my A levels, receiving my degree, landing my first job on a national newspaper.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Monday, 5 September 2011 at 5:17 pm
The Road to Recovery: Lots of lovely benefits?
My wife told me that so wondrous is the state’s largesse for wheelchair users that this is causing resentment among the able-bodied population. So much so that there have been incidences of attacks on the tube…
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Tuesday, 30 August 2011 at 12:00 pm
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