Shorter pieces — responses to policy moves, conference notes, expansions on chapters, and arguments still in progress.
A decade in research and frontline NHS practice has convinced me we have been arguing about the wrong things — and the cost of that mis-framing is paid by the people we say we are trying to help. Read on LinkedIn →
Most practitioners recognise the pattern. Someone finally gets housed. Their substance use reduces — and then the system congratulates itself for an outcome it did not produce. Read on LinkedIn →
We talk about homelessness, mental distress and substance use as if they unfold neatly over time — pathways, trajectories, recovery journeys. The lived experience does not behave that way, and our services are built on the wrong clock. Read on LinkedIn →