The addiction services workforce is in crisis — and the sector keeps looking for answers in the wrong places. This piece applies Ubuntu philosophy to a problem hiding in plain sight: not just how we retain recovery workers, but how we recruit them in the first place. Written as part of the President's Global Leadership Award at King's College London and revised for the sector.

A frontline addiction worker turned MSc student, navigating doctoral applications in the middle of exam season, half-term childcare and imposter syndrome. Here's what nobody tells you about breaking into academia – and what happens when the outcome arrives.

If you're dead, you can't recover.
Harm reduction was born from crisis, but its legacy is one of compassion, evidence, and survival. In this post, I explore why it's time we stop sidelining harm reduction and start recognising it as the foundation of recovery, not its alternative. Drawing on frontline experience and research, I make the case for a more humane, person-centred approach to addiction care.