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Podcast: An interview with Ed Day, the UK Recovery Champion

Dr Ed Day talks to the SSA about his role as the UK Government’s...
Created On: 16 February 2022   (Last updated: 16 February 2022)

Dr Ed Day talks to the SSA about his role as the UK Government’s first Recovery Champion. He talks about shaping this new role, about policy history and what he has learned from people in recovery.

In this episode, Dr Ed Day discusses his work in recovery settings from the early 2000s and reflects on what can be learned from that era. He talks about DANOS and workforce development, reflecting many of the themes in the Dame Carol Black report.

He talks about the difficulties caused when harm reduction and abstinence were pitched against each other noting that this division distracted many people from the damages caused by years of disinvestment in addiction treatment services.

Ed goes on to describe Recovery Oriented Systems of Care and how they have the potential to tap into the huge support systems in recovery. He emphasises, however, that they need supporting through infrastructure and investment to give them the value they deserve, noting that “recovery support services need parity of esteem”:

“There are some amazing individuals around the UK who have battled through horrendous life stories and they’ve now gone on to devote a lot of their energy to helping people out of this.”

“Unless we tap into that massive energy, we are missing something enormous in the treatment sphere.”


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