SOCIETY for an ADDICTION FREE EUROPE: OUR MISSION

Originally established, in 1974 by a retired U.K. Magistrate, as the “Centre for the Effective Prevention & Treatment of Addiction” (CEPTA), in 1975 it was recognised that the various facets of addiction required separate recovery approaches, and so SAFE, ARTS and AWASH - all not-for-profit community support groups - were formed in 1975:

“to, by all means possible, inform politicians, officials and the public about those registered charities and other groups which, by providing training in effective do-it-for-yourself recovery methods, help a majority of individual addicts to achieve for themselves a lasting return to the natural non-criminal state of relaxed abstinence into which 99% of the population is born – all based on responsibility for self.”

This need arose when it became obvious that the self-help “TRAINING” in other countries of alcoholics and drug addicts was not only achieving results far in advance of those attained by “treatment”, but also when in the U.K. such training was deliberately attacked, marginalised, ridiculed, denigrated & systematically blackened by the vested interest psycho-pharm providers of basically ineffective treatment, “counselling” and Opioid Substitution Therapy - the taxpayer paid lifetime legal addiction described as “habit management”.

It will therefore be seen that it is our intention to inform local community officials, decision-makers and recovery providers of the vastly superior results obtained from TRAINING addicts in do-it-for-yourself addiction recovery techniques, especially as, under the government’s Payment by

Results drugs strategy, such training delivers – better than any other system, the low cost lasting results the government needs & demands.

Therefore, in addition to also directing addicts to those centres which will train them in how to rescue themselves from addiction, we deliver educational lectures, seminars & presentations, distribute information, mount exhibitions and attend other events mounted by official and voluntary organisations in the drug and addiction policy, rehabilitation and recovery fields.

We also publish books, articles and letters informing decision-makers and others of the advances in drug policy and the superior results being achieved in other countries by self-help training programmes, and organise visits to centres in such countries and in the U.K. for education in, and direct experience of, successful and productive methods of ensuring a lasting and worthwhile reduction in addiction.

We are therefore, amongst other activities, educators and disseminators of information vital to our nation’s future prosperity and its very survival.

As a result of its continuing work and experience over the last 41 years:

S.A.F.E. IS DEMONSTRABLY THE UK’s LEADING INDEPENDENT CENTRE OF EXPERTISE ON THE REDUCTION OF DEMAND FOR ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES.


S.A.F.E. Is A Not-For-Profit Community Support Group Formed In 1975.


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