Rehab and Recovery | A glimpse into a success story | UKAT

David McCormack’s story is a journey of descent into drug addiction that started with casual, recreational use. Initially using drugs only on weekends, he eventually found himself using them seven days a week, illustrating how quickly recreational use can lead to dependency. David describes feeling trapped in a cycle with limited escape options – prison, death, or self-destruction due to excessive drug use.

The availability of drug addiction treatment in the UK has long been a pressing issue. Overstretched resources, insufficient funding, and a growing number of people seeking help have strained NHS rehab services, particularly in regions like the North West, where Runcorn is located. This lack of accessible treatment has contributed to a high local death rate of nearly three people per day due to drugs. Fortunately, David received funding for six months of private drug rehab at UKAT’s Oasis Runcorn Centre, an opportunity he credits with saving his life.

Faith Noone, the Centre Manager at Oasis Runcorn, believes that David’s success story should serve as a lesson for local authorities about the effectiveness of residential rehab programs. While most government funding for addiction recovery focuses on outpatient community detox, Noone argues that this approach is a “false economy.” She accuses local authorities of neglecting the true extent of the drug addiction challenge and favoring outpatient treatment primarily because it is cost-effective. However, she emphasizes that this cost-saving approach often sacrifices the comprehensive support and structured environment that residential care offers. Noone believes that prioritizing budgets for residential drug rehab could significantly reduce drug-related deaths across the North West and the rest of the UK.

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As you can see like that’s the like the grip therapy rooms where you would do the a treat when David mcor first came to this residential rehab center in roncor he was at Rock Bottom from sort of using on a Friday sat the night to

Use in seven days a week um and then when you start to use that amount of drugs you start to go down other roads um that again lead you to that path where you’re going to end up you’re either going to end up in jail or you’re going end up getting yourself either

Killed or you’re going to end up killing yourself because of the amount of drugs that you’re taking David managed to get funding for six months of treatment here at Oasis Recovery Center next month he’ll be 5 years clean would you say that this place saved your life million per want to be

Here would I be dead be dead cuz that’s where my life was gone I was like like I explained I was just using drugs with a hope of dying that’s Place gave me the building blocks but I believe that for anybody in recovery and especially for me you have

To also kind of look at the work that you have put in but for many addicts the road to recovery isn’t always a success figures show that in the Northwest last year there were nearly three drug related deaths every single day and while the government’s pledge to prevent

1,000 deaths by the end of this year Stafford Oasis say that promise is Holy unachievable so what should local councils be doing to help I think they need to prioritize um the budget for residential rehab facilities um it’s false economy to do community detoxes this is a life and death situation

Addiction is a progressive disease it’s never going to go away there is always going to be addiction but we can minimize the you know the the deaths um significantly if they do uh what they say they’re going to do and provide the actual budgeting in a in a more common

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Be with her dad and the family would be nowhere David is proof that recovery is possible he’s just completed his second University degree but without the funding for his treatment here his story may not have been so hopeful zoor malun ITV News runcorn