People

In this section, we introduce you to the people we have interviewed online for Recovery Voices. Some of them have more than one interview. Each post contains a brief biography, with relevant links, along with details of the films that have been edited from the original, i.e. titles, summaries and links to the film on our Recovery Voices YouTube channel. These films form a Recovery Voices archive. The original films were also edited into short clips that are used to generate our Recovery Themes. For each person, we provide a link to the relevant YouTube Recovery Themes Playlist. 

Due to the interviews being conducted online, the cinematic quality is variable. For this, we apologise. However, we believe that what is said in the interviews is of great importance. Our sincere thanks to Huseyin, James, David, Wendy and Marcus for their time. 

13th September 2023

Huseyin Djemil, Part 2

Huseyin Djemil, Founder of Towards Recovery, talks about a range of topics which include: recovering people needing to be visible; the Japanese art of Kintsugi, which teaches you that your broken parts are valued; a comparison of the drug strategies of two major British cities; an analogy of the revolving door of treatment...
12th September 2023

Huseyin Djemil

Huseyin Djemil describes Towards Recovery, the recovery community that he developed in Henley-on-Thames in 2012. He also talks about some of his work as a freelance consultant, and reflects on various themes relating to addiction, recovery and treatment. Huseyin is in long-term recovery from an addiction to Class A drugs.
11th September 2023

David Clark, with Huseyin Djemil

This is an interview I did in June 2021 with Huseyin Djemil of Towards Recovery for his Journeys Podcast. Huseyin takes me through various parts of my journey, and we cover a range of recovery-related topics, including the power of story, the impact of trauma, recovery as self-healing, and the power of human connection.