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With the bills rolling in after Christmas, this week’s episode is devoted to helping listeners tackle their credit card debts on a practical and emotional level – no matter how big or small they might be. Host Claer Barrett hears from experienced debt adviser Sara Williams of the popular Debt Camel blog and Instagram account, Helen Saxon, deputy editor of Money Saving Expert, and Dr Pamela Roberts, a shopping addiction specialist at the Priory Clinic. They give tips on balance transfers and on how to resist the urge to splurge.
Stuck at home, with alcohol and drugs easily available, subsance addicts have found lockdown hard-going
Pamela Roberts, psychotherapist and addictions programme manager at the Priory Hospital Woking, says: “Covid has accelerated a dependency that might have otherwise crept up on them over time. Social isolation, loss of control over the situation we fnd ourselves in, working from home, not connecting with support networks or structures — all are issues that contribute to drinking more.”
Most of the patients seen by consultant psychiatrist Dr Niall Campbell, an addictions expert based at the Priory Hospital Roehampton in London, are working from home. “As time went on, the novelty wore of,” he says, “and often relationships with partners and family members deteriorated, and people became stressed, or more bored, and began to drink earlier and the quantities they consumed increased . . . Some people became increasingly isolated, which is a feature of worsening alcohol abuse.
Stuck at home, with alcohol and drugs easily available, subsance addicts have found lockdown hard-going
Pamela Roberts, psychotherapist and addictions programme manager at the Priory Hospital Woking, says: “Covid has accelerated a dependency that might have otherwise crept up on them over time. Social isolation, loss of control over the situation we fnd ourselves in, working from home, not connecting with support networks or structures — all are issues that contribute to drinking more.”
Most of the patients seen by consultant psychiatrist Dr Niall Campbell, an addictions expert based at the Priory Hospital Roehampton in London, are working from home. “As time went on, the novelty wore of,” he says, “and often relationships with partners and family members deteriorated, and people became stressed, or more bored, and began to drink earlier and the quantities they consumed increased . . . Some people became increasingly isolated, which is a feature of worsening alcohol abuse.
