Fellow’s Profile
Jacqueline Johnston-Lynch
Fellow’s Profile
Jacqueline Johnston-Lynch
Addiction treatment of military veterans and emergency personnel
Fellowship
Themes
Focus
Treating veterans and emergency personnel with addiction via referral support and evidence-based treatments
Countries
Fellowship year
2015
Supported by
Locality
North West
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Biography
I am Head of Services at Vitality Homes (recovery living centres). My Fellowship was about how the USA treats its addicted military veterans who have a dual diagnosis with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). My aim was to put the issue of addiction recovery high on the agenda for the British Government via the minister for veteran affairs, hoping that this would lead to seamless and specialist services here in the UK.
My father, my grandfather and my partner were veterans and have all had varying levels of mental health and dependency issues. I wrote and delivered the treatment programme for the UK's first specialist UK addiction treatment centre for military veterans. Undertaking the Fellowship has led to me being invited to speak at many conferences and asked to advise organisations and consortiums on how to set up specific recovery models for addicted military veterans.
The Fellowship gave me an incredible experience that holds great prestige whilst also enabling me to support communities, organisations, individuals and specialist services across the UK and the USA.
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All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.