{"id":466837,"date":"2026-05-25T22:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466837\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:45:11","slug":"bushy-park-makes-strides-in-addressing-link-between-substance-use-and-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466837\/","title":{"rendered":"Bushy Park Makes Strides In Addressing Link Between Substance Use And Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pioneering initiative at and Ennis Addiction Treatment Centre is making meaningful strides in addressing the complex link between substance use and mental health.<\/p>\n<p>The Substance Use and Mental Health project brings together professional facilitators and evidence-based approaches to support individuals facing dual diagnosis challenges.<\/p>\n<p>By creating a safe, supportive environment, the programme empowers participants to share their experiences, build coping strategies, and work toward long-term recovery and improved wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>Facilitator of the Dual Diagnosis or Co-current Mental Health And Substance Dependency Group at Bushy Park Residential Treatment Centre, Michael Lacey says people coming out of addiction often discover an underlying mental health problem.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pioneering initiative at and Ennis Addiction Treatment Centre is making meaningful strides in addressing the complex link&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-466837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}