The use of visual methods during recovery from substance misuse: A collaboration with Fallen Angels dance theatre

Sustained investment in treatment by successive UK governments has not always been accompanied by reductions in substance misuse problems. Recent policy empahsises ‘abstinent recovery’ and full re-integration into community life. But what can we say about the complex emotional dilemmas and real life decisions that accompany people’s attempts to recover from substance misuse? In this research, we aimed to address these issues by exploring the use of visual images and dance as an aid to understanding and expressing feelings and hopes related to recovery, in order to assess to what extent dancing and thinking in pictures might add value to existing services and suppor