{"id":3007,"date":"2022-11-09T09:16:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T09:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2022-11-16T21:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T21:01:59","slug":"warning-of-human-catastrophe-as-more-turn-to-drink-and-drugs-to-numb-stress-of-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3007","title":{"rendered":"Warning of &#8216;human catastrophe&#8217; as more turn to drink and drugs to &#8216;numb stress&#8217; of cost of living"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">Charities are warning of a &#8220;human catastrophe&#8221; as more people turn to drugs and alcohol to &#8220;cope&#8221; with the cost of living crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">New research, commissioned by The Forward Trust, revealed 32% of people said either they, or someone close to them, had relapsed into substance use over the past eight months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">Overall 2.1 million said they had increased alcohol use, while 61% of those said stress over rising prices was the most significant trigger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">Tom, 57, has been in recovery from heroin use for the past eight years.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff914d;\" href=\"https:\/\/news-sky-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/news.sky.com\/story\/amp\/warning-of-human-catastrophe-as-more-turn-to-drink-and-drugs-to-numb-stress-of-cost-of-living-12739717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3095,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions\/3095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}