Cafe owner praises customers for supporting her recovery after heart attack<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n As well as clients being denied support due to substance use she said some then found they couldn\u2019t get help to stop using drugs or alcohol: \u201cThey are told \u2018we can\u2019t help you because that substance is what is keeping you alive\u2019.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n She said some also had concerns about group therapy which has re-traumatised them listening to other people\u2019s stories while others don\u2019t like taking medication and fear being shut off from support if they raise their concerns. Others have waited two years for trauma therapy and then been told they aren\u2019t eligible as they would be unable to cope with the treatment.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n She said \u201cmore communication\u201d with clients about what to expect would be good.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Dr Liz Andrew, who briefed the committee on mental health services provided by Gwent\u2019s Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, including for those at risk of suicide, thanked Mr Devlin for his comments.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said she didn\u2019t \u201crecognise\u201d his experience of contacting the mental health team but would look into them and said they will also be included in a review of referral pathways. She also said she would receive the other comments on barriers to support.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Frances Taylor, independent councillor for Magor West, said she was sure all councillors had experience of people \u201cwho haven\u2019t been able to access support appropriately\u201d due to issues such as substance addiction.\n<\/p>\n
\n Louise Turner, head of mental health for the Aneurin Bevan NHS board, said it has strategies to recognise the potential difficulties and said it is important it and partners such as councils work together to \u201cmake sure we haven\u2019t got lots of barriers.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n She said there is an area planning board that works with other services and is intended to ensure people don\u2019t \u201cfall between services\u201d while in Newport the city council and health board jointly fund a COG service for co-occurring problems such as mental health and substance misuse.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Cllr Taylor suggested Monmouthshire\u2019s public services committee write to the council\u2019s cabinet member to consider a similar service for the county.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff from mental health charity Mind, which works across Gwent, outlined a number of \u201cbarriers\u201d facing people experiencing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-266969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114863761253769413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}