A must watch this 👇🏽

A sad and powerful true story of addiction, heartbreaking 💔.

Yet it’s positive as Kim Kaur🌻 Be Hõsh has turned her life around and helping others 🙏🏽❤️👊🏽

So much work is going on around the subject area to encourage those to get help and also deliver a culturally sensitive offering. Slowly but surely the work around the country is coming together 🙏🏽👊🏽

Excellent work by Kim Kaur🌻 Be Hõsh to raise awareness of drug & alcohol issues in Asian communities, stigma around the topic, the SAFIR* group offering support to South Asian women, and the need for culturally sensitive services 👇🏽
#TherapistsConnect
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A brilliant piece of work by Shinasa Shahid and David Best 👏🏽🙏🏽👇🏽

“Exploring cultural dynamics of Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) women in addiction recovery: a comparison of three women from different ethnic backgrounds”

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#research Exploring cultural dynamics of Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) women in #addiction #recovery : shinasa shahid
David Best
With increasing substance use & untreated addiction appropriate services are needed. Nadia Whittome MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP

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I weren’t meant to survive ( the low life homeless herion/ crack addict 💉 but I got clean 🙏🏻 then see what was going on in society 💉🔪 & realised this mess has come from ignorance = lack of integrity (the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles)

Blessed trinity school this morning Burnley Lancashire 😊 #wecare #Wellbeing 👫❤️🙏🏻

On route 🚕 change a few young minds today 👫😊❤️ #WECARE 🙏🏻

'At a time when 27 people in the UK are dying a day as a result of alcohol misuse, drinks companies are spending some £6bn promoting their products in major markets around the world.' bmj.com/content/385/bm…

I never sold drugs 💉💊 but I did spend around £2 million pounds on them putting me in the company of a lot of drug dealers? But if I was a drug dealer I would appreciate it if you never Made the kids 👫 you work with aware of me 👍🏻😊 because that would make them easy targets!

On route 🚂 back to Essex rest & recharge as I’ll be educating around 2000 11-16 year olds 👫 next week in Surrey & up north & doing parent evenings #family #community #wellbeing !!! #WECARE ❤️

Sikh Womens Aid Jit Chauhan Dr David Patton shinasa shahid BAC-IN 2life recovery: Sohan Sahota Thank you. Educating our communities about Drugs & Alcohol is important . We dont want #hiddenaddictions or cultural shame. We want to #endstigma
SAFIR* would love to come & talk about our work!

Kim Kaur🌻 Be Hõsh Jit Chauhan Dr David Patton shinasa shahid BAC-IN 2life recovery: Sohan Sahota Thank you Kim for sharing your story. The work you are doing is so important in the context of just how difficult it can be for Indian girls to acknowledge and accept support for drug dependency.

Once we re start our podcast we would love to have you on as a guest 🩵🙏🏽

We've started the process,we want others across the country to join in to build momentum on such a sensitive subject,
*consultation in Leiceter - Jit Chauhan #ImJit & Dr David Patton
*research on BAME women in Recovery by shinasa shahid
BAC-IN 2life recovery: Sohan Sahota
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..“they don’t stick around” because of a lack of understanding among support workers of the cultural issues they face.
“We need the right services, led by the community, but there is little investment.”
English Substance Use Commissioners Group Collective Voice UK Parliament Nadia Whittome MP Rishi Sunak Alcohol Health Alliance UK

Great work! Kim Kaur🌻 Be Hõsh So pleased you'll be at the #Ideasconference to talk about SAFIR* alongside shinasa shahid's research on 'Exploring Cultural Dynamics of Black Asian Ethnic Women in Addiction Recovery' ShipShape Community Hub Cllr Nighat Basharat Nabeela Councillor Safiya Saeed-Berberawi

Premier inn this morning 😊☕️🍳🥣 then of to a school in east Devon change a few young 👫 minds #WECARE ❤️

Kim's story Kim Kaur🌻 Be Hõsh with BBC Yorkshire & BBC Breakfast this week reflects on the experience of underserved & under-represented communities.

'Addiction can affect anyone but the diversity is not reflected in the many recovery services we have..'
Nadia Whittome MP

#ImJit