Drug addiction

The Opioid crisis has been turned into an opera
Opera

The Opioid crisis has been turned into an opera

The Galloping Cure traces the specifics of the opioid crisis in the US, but in these troubled times, audiences will find something to relate to wherever they’re from

London’s first homeless detox centre set to close: ‘We’re pushing problems back onto the streets now’
homelessness

London’s first homeless detox centre set to close: ‘We’re pushing problems back onto the streets now’

The Addiction Clinical Care Suite based at St Thomas’ Hospital in Lambeth is set to close over a £1m funding shortfall despite homelessness crisis as health secretary Wes Streeting says: ‘We can’t write these people off’

I was homeless at 16 after leaving care. My apprenticeship gave me a future
Nick Marshall

I was homeless at 16 after leaving care. My apprenticeship gave me a future

Nick Marshall is a foundation apprentice at Lifetime Training. For National Apprenticeship Week, he explains how pathway into work has helped him from leaving the care system to overcoming homelessness and drug addiction

This is what it’s like to fall into hidden homelessness: ‘I felt like a burden’
Homelessness

This is what it’s like to fall into hidden homelessness: ‘I felt like a burden’

Labour has promised to stop poor people dying so early. A Scottish rapper could help them find the way
Health inequalities

Labour has promised to stop poor people dying so early. A Scottish rapper could help them find the way

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This project offers homeless people a home for life: ‘We want to end homelessness one person at a time’
Homelessness

This project offers homeless people a home for life: ‘We want to end homelessness one person at a time’

So-called ‘deaths of despair’ are rising in the UK. Labour must act on this silent epidemic
James Rose

So-called ‘deaths of despair’ are rising in the UK. Labour must act on this silent epidemic