MSc Mental Health & Substance Use | Consultancy | Addiction Recovery | LERO Capacity Building Project Manager | Workforce | Research | Threads @StaceyInspire
England, United Kingdom
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Read all about my study - An exploration into the perspectives of people with lived experience of substance use and addiction: transitioning from accessing services to voluntary and paid employment roles within the treatment and recovery workforce. linkedin.com/posts/staceyins…
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🔥 On Saturday I will be walking on fire for Foundation 2 Change. Please donate if you can. It will be a fun event with many raffle prizes so you can even come along. donate.stripe.com/cNi8wO91rf… #LERO #Charity #Solihull #Birmingham 🔥
Last week I began a new role as LERO Capacity Building Project Manager supporting the development and sustainability of lived experience recovery organisations (LEROs) across England. linkedin.com/in/staceyebanni…
Fab day at the @DDNMagazine conference with Better Together - Solihull Recovery Community and Foundation 2 Change and catching up with all the great and the good. Chats with the LEROs from near and far and services with innovative ideas.💡#DDNConf
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the #DDNConf tomorrow!
TOMORROW!
We're looking forward to seeing you at the DDN Conference. Please check out our #ddnconf FAQ for any last minute questions you may have about attending. You'll also find details of the day's programme and speakers.
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Stacey Bannister MSc retweeted
If someone on substitution is the first person in the chemist, then after 5 minutes 4 other people arrive and get served first, then there is a problem...it's not a triage system, if it was they'd still be first, so why the wait. Apparently, "everyone came at once" they didn't
University Partnership Launches Innovative Ketamine Clinic to Treat Severe Depression birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/u…
Oh bloody hell no 😢What sad news.
Drugs campaigner Peter Krykant dies, aged 48 bbc.in/4kDy960
New report on Co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders (CoSUM) from @rcpsych, direct link here if you want some bedtime reading... lnkd.in/e7hwCM3i
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The widespread availability of #crack #cocaine is ‘driving #addiction, #mentalhealth struggles and #homelessness’ in England’s deprived communities, says a new report from Birkbeck, University of London and the University of York: bit.ly/4jeW8Xo
Declined speaking at a conference due to the combined cost of attendance, accommodation & travel. Big believer in taking opportunities but not at the cost of a family holiday or just, you know, not eating for a month. 🙄🤔
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I have been a community-based #drug and #alcohol worker since the late ’90s. Skip forward to 2025 and we are faced with the ‘corporatisation’ of the third sector – behemoth charities vying for funding in a race to the bottom: bit.ly/42TX79s
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Of course they don't mean the drugs THEY enjoy using, they are only referring to the drugs OTHERS use.
#hypocrisy #doublespeak #smokeandmirrors #scam
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The government has published its 2025-26 #drug, #alcohol & #recovery grant funding for local authorities. The allocations will see £310m go to councils to ‘build on their vital work of improving outcomes for people who need treatment and recovery support’: bit.ly/3XFWj6m
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What does ‘lived experience’ really mean, ask Julian Buchanan and Oscar Graham: bit.ly/3G0PSVf
Any advice on how to fund conference attendance? Are they only for people attached to big orgs or with fat salaries because jeeeeeeeez.