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Plain-English entries on the bits nobody tells you about. Free, sourced, dated. No referral fees, ever.

• How to spot a rehab broker — If you are the partner about to make the call, read this first. Brokers exist in every market. The work is real and, done well, valuable. This page is what you are actually getting when you call one — a small, commercially filtered panel, not the UK rehab market.
• UK rehab prices, explained honestly — What private alcohol rehab actually costs in 2026, what is in the bundled fee, what is not, the NHS and charity routes nobody on the phone will mention, and the questions that get the rest of the answer out of any clinic.
• How to stop drinking without AA — AA works for a lot of people. It did not work for me, and the assumption that it is the only door is one of the more tir…
• Naltrexone in the UK — plain guide — Naltrexone is the most widely-evidenced drug for alcohol problems that almost nobody in the UK has heard of. It is not a…
• Rehab vs outpatient — the honest version — I went into residential treatment in Cheshire in June 2020. I paid for it. It was the right call for me. It is not the right call for everyone, and…
• Work addiction — the signs nobody around you will call out — Drinking gets called out. Eventually. Work, by contrast, comes with applause. That is the trap. I am sober since 2020 an…
• After rehab — what to actually do on day twenty-nine — The brochure ends on day twenty-eight. The risk does not. Most relapses inside the first year happen in the months a cli…
• The partner of someone drinking — what actually helps — Most of the recovery industry is set up for the drinker. The people around them — the spouse on the stairs at midnight, …