UK SMART Recovery Scotland

07/09/2025

This is my kind of season! 🧡🎃🕯️🍂🍁🧋👻☠️🧡

04/09/2025

Welcome to the team James! It has been a pleasure working with you already! 💙

We are delighted to welcome James Slater to our team as Community Co-ordinator, following a recent staff reshuffle. James will be covering South East and South West England, bringing his experience and enthusiasm to the role.

About James:
After seven-plus years as a SMART Participant & Facilitator, I’m delighted to join the team at UK SMART Recovery as Community Coordinator for the South of England. I’m returning to the world of work after five years semi-retired & volunteering: with SMART; my local Drug & Alcohol service; Citizens Advice; & a few other worthwhile enterprises.

Before that, I was very fortunate to have a near-40-year career of Public Service, split into two halves: the Police and then NHS management.

SMART’s behavioural & mindful approach is central to my life in Recovery. As a Facilitator, I hope to get across the messages that I took from my very first meeting: 1. we are not alone in this; 2. we can begin to tell the truth; & 3. change is possible.

So: applying those messages – these days, as part of my balanced life in Bath, I play the ukulele & the bass guitar (but not at the same time)…

Please join us in giving James a warm welcome to the team!

01/09/2025

We only gone and done it again!! 💙💜

UK SMART Recovery Wins Three Years Running! 🏆

We’re incredibly proud to share that UK SMART Recovery has been honoured once again as the Addiction Recovery Training Charity of the Year by Acquisition International and not just for the third year in a row! This amazing milestone reflects our unwavering commitment to delivering effective, compassionate, evidence-based addiction recovery training across the UK.

Each year, this award highlights excellence in non-profit work, particularly within addiction recovery. UK SMART Recovery’s reputation for empowering individuals with practical, stigma-free tools has never been stronger.

Join us in celebrating this success! Share this post with your network, consider attending a meeting, or learn how you can support our work—whether by volunteering, attending training, or spreading the word.

01/09/2025

Come join us on this fantastic event 💙

We’re THRILLED to announce the launch of UK SMART Recovery and Ireland Volunteer Recognition Awards! Join us on Tuesday, 30th September 2025 at 19:00 GMT to celebrate the SMART Recovery Facilitators who every week across the UK, Ireland, and the Isle of Man, empower people to change their lives and transforming the conversation around receive recovery and addictive behaviours. Our four winners will be announced at this virtual event sponsored by Moving On (Inverclyde). Learn more and book your place at https://smartrecovery.org.uk/awards

31/08/2025

International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) is marked today.

The IOAD 2025 theme, 'One big family, driven by hope', aims to highlight the importance of unity, compassion, and collective action in facing the overdose crisis.

13/08/2025

If you've got something to get off your chest and you feel you can't share it with your loved ones - Breathing Space is here to listen.

NHS 24's free and confidential listening service is suitable for people in Scotland aged 16 and above.

Opening hours:
Weekdays: Monday-Thursday 6pm to 2am
Weekend: Friday 6pm-Monday 6am
📞 Phone: 0800 83 85 87
📲 Webchat: www.breathingspace.scot

23/07/2025

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UK SMART Recovery is at Latitude Festival!

Arriving on site tomorrow, Thursday 24th July, SMART Facilitators Emma, Janine, and Jean will be hosting a SMART meeting every day of the festival in the Recovery Tent, located in the Mind, Body & Zen area.

Joining them on Friday will be our Brand Ambassador and SMART Facilitator DJ Brandon Block, who’ll be co-facilitating the SMART meeting, as well as sharing his story of recovery and playing an exclusive sunset DJ set on the Zen Stage.

This promises to be a very special weekend, come and say hi if you’re lucky enough to be at Latitude too!

09/07/2025

💙 A lot of people may find their alcohol use ‘normal’ and ‘social’. But have you ever been worried about how much you have had after work?
Have a look at this article, see if you can relate. If you want to change your behaviour towards alcohol, we have a huge range of tips, tools, techniques and strategies in SMART Recovery. Head over to our website to find out more.

https://smartrecovery.org.uk/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/alcohol-facts/fact-sheets/alcohol-and-work-steps-towards-healthier-habits

Whether it's used as a bonding tool, reward, or to cope, drinking too much alcohol can impact our health and wellbeing. Use these tips for healthier habits.

07/07/2025

Around 10 million of us are regularly drinking alcohol in ways that can harm our health and wellbeing. From headaches, hangovers and sleepless nights to lowe...

07/07/2025

* information from Alcohol Change UK*

Around 10 million of us are regularly drinking alcohol in ways that can harm our health and wellbeing. From headaches, hangovers and sleepless nights to lower productivity and symptoms like anxiety and depression worsening over time, alcohol affects us in so many ways.
But how many of us have stopped to think about the impact of the work we do on our risk from alcohol? With longer hours, more stress, the blurring of lines between work and home, and too many workplace cultures that place booze rather than people at the centre of things, there are so many ways work and alcohol are linked. This Alcohol Awareness Week, it’s time for us, and the places we work, to feel healthier, more productive and happier.

If you would like to change your behaviour towards alcohol, The SMART Recovery Program could help. Check out our website to find out more and find a meeting near you 💙 https://smartrecovery.org.uk/

07/07/2025

🧠💬 SMART Recovery in Peebles – Weekly Support for Recovery and Wellbeing

Looking for a safe, supportive space to explore recovery from substance use — or to support someone you care about?

Join us in Peebles for our weekly SMART Recovery meeting, open to anyone aged 16+.

SMART (Self-Management and Recovery Training) is a science-based approach that helps you:
✅ Build motivation
✅ Cope with urges
✅ Manage thoughts, feelings & behaviors
✅ Live a balanced, healthy life

This group is for anyone on a recovery journey — and for family or friends who are supporting someone through theirs.

📍 Peebles
🕒 Every Monday 12.30-1.45pm
💷 Free to attend
💬 No referral needed — just come as you are.

Whether you're starting out or further along, there's a place for you here. Let’s recover together 💚