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by Change | 2 Feb 2009

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A woman who recovered from substance addiction through an inpatient rehab clinic has called on users to pick the right type of treatment for them.

An inpatient addiction clinic was the key which helped a woman overcome a substance addiction problem, a source reveals.

Denise, as she refers to herself, tells the Nottingham Evening Post a stay at Portland House, which offers residential drug treatment, helped her to stay clean.

Previously, she had attended an addiction programme in her home area but decided to change rehab centre after deciding it was not the right service for her.

Denise tells the news provider: "You have the right to get treatment that is right for you. There's lots of treatment out there."

Having overcome her addiction problem, she now takes part in Work Directions, helping unemployed people find help through welfare-to-work schemes.

She says Portland House was ideal as it offered a small number of places and she does not like large groups of people.

"The staff there were great. I left after ten months and moved into homeless accommodation in Newark … I realised I could be the person I wanted to be," she tells the source.

Last month, the Burton Mail reported that Noreen Oliver, who recovered from a substance addiction to set up her own alcohol rehabilitation clinic, has received an MBE recognising her work.

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