We are dealing with a group of people who don't trust the system there to help them. Their barriers are often fear-based – a protection mechanism against trauma.

Trauma is an emotional wound. We are forever managing its effect on us. Trauma sticks like tar.

People want to do everything they can to overcome their addiction and yet they want to do everything they can to avoid facing the trauma – in that confusing conflict of opposites the drugs and alcohol become the solution.

We know that it is at the crisis points in life that relapse from recovery – especially early recovery - becomes a risk.

80% of people told us that during their time in treatment they lost their home. Having achieved sobriety, they had nowhere to go.

I have six months left until I leave rehab and I’m already starting to worry about this. Unless I have a well-paid job or supportive, generous family then it's going to be a very difficult time for me, of which I have neither at this time.

I was totally reliant on Hope and Vision when I came out of rehab. I really don’t know where I would have gone. Without them, I don’t know what I would have done.

I didn't have anything like Hope and Vision when I came out of rehab. I had mutual aid, and I had people around me, which mattered enormously, and I don't want to undersell that. But there was no structured place to go, no community built specifically to hold you through those first, hardest months.