Scotland’s addiction crisis: can outdoor therapy actually help?

Scotland has some of the highest drug deaths in Europe, a deepening mental health crisis and loses between three and four people a day to suicide.
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Yet at the same time, services are being stripped back leaving a gap in support that is often filled with volunteers who have a personal experience of addiction. Guardian reporter Danny Lavelle, joined one of those organisations, Fire & Peace, which aims to encourage bonds with nature to help people beat the cycle of addiction, on a trip to the Scottish Highlands. As a natural sceptic of alternative therapies, could he be convinced of the benefits?

0:00 Scotland's mental health crisis
1:22 Why nature is helpful for recovery
3:35 Life in Drumchapel
5:14 Setting off to camp
9:55 Fire and Peace talk therapy
11:26 Complementary, not alternative

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