CASA Lending Hand to Addicts

Different Types of Addicts

Addiction is addiction, but different addictions may have different consequences.

CASA lending hand to addicts

Twenty-five years ago, a handful of Barbadians who had worked in the United Kingdom and Canada returned home with a troubling realisation: their island had virtually no non-residential support for people struggling with addiction. What existed was limited to males and older people, leaving gaps in care.“Barbados did not really have a non-residential facility for persons,” recalled Sherryl Griffith, coordinator of services at the Centre for Couns…