New release alert: A Philosophical Critique of Co-existing Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges: “Pain Comes First, Drugs Come Later” 👀 Exploring how suffering underpins addiction, challenging dominant models and asking: what if the pain came first?
https://t.co/6wZDiIEnda
📘 A Philosophical Critique of Co-Existing #MentalHealth and #SubstanceUse Challenges: #Pain Comes First — #Drugs Come Later is now available. This book dismantles “dual diagnosis,” reframes pain as knowledge, and proposes a justice-grounded care model
https://t.co/hTMb7sbgKm
👥 Imagine Wembley full: 90,000 people. Now picture 30–45k living with both mental health & substance use needs.This isn’t “marginal.” It’s mainstream.
Fragmented care misses people where it matters most. Integration isn’t optional—it’s life-saving. #systemchange#CoSUM
🚨 New Podcast 🎙️
Layered Care – Episode 1: Welcome
From a 6am doorway on the streets to the prison wing where I first met “Jayne,” this episode asks what happens when #MentalHealth and #SubstanceUse collide.
#Podcast#LayeredCare#Addiction#SocialWork
https://t.co/2MAzMeoIj6
What if falling through the cracks isn’t a failure of the system— but the system working exactly as intended?
Services don’t just miss people. They sort them. Filter them. Decide who is helpable—and who isn't. That’s not dysfunction. That’s design.
#MentalHealth#Addiction
🧵 New paper out now (Open Access)
Structural and cultural barriers to integrated care for co-existing mental health and substance use: a morphogenetic analysis
🔗 https://t.co/NFc3vS8y7Z
Here’s what it’s about 👇
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This is for anyone working in or thinking about:
•Crisis teams
•Dual diagnosis care
•Public health reform
•Epistemic injustice
•Trauma-informed systems
•Ontology of care
Let’s rethink integration—at the level of structure, not just services.