Who Is We Do Recover?
We Do Recover helps individuals, families and organisations respond when alcohol or drug use has become a crisis and the next step is unclear.
Our work can begin with a worried family, somebody asking for help themselves, an employee in crisis, a person refusing treatment, or a family trying to arrange admission quickly and safely.
We provide professional intervention, assessment, treatment coordination, admission support, transport, chaperoning and continuing recovery support. Where medical detox, inpatient rehabilitation, psychiatric care or other regulated clinical treatment is required, that care is delivered by the appropriately licensed professionals responsible for treatment.
Built from lived and professional experience
We Do Recover was founded by Gareth Carter, CCMI-M, whose work in addiction treatment and recovery began in 1995.
Gareth has been clean and sober, in continuous recovery, since 4 January 1993. Over more than three decades he has worked with people and families affected by addiction in South Africa and internationally, including senior treatment roles and more than 200 professional interventions.
We Do Recover grew from that experience. Families need more than information. They need somebody who understands addiction, resistance to treatment, intervention, levels of care, admission logistics and what needs to happen next.
What we do
Structured professional support when a person is refusing treatment or the family is stuck.
Understanding risks, needs and the level of care that should be considered next.
Helping families prepare the practical pathway into appropriate treatment.
Support around admission, treatment travel and transitions in South Africa and internationally.
Practical recovery support where additional structure and accountability are needed.
Guidance before admission, through treatment transitions and into ongoing recovery.
Family first
Most addiction crises are first experienced by the family. They see the missed work, money problems, broken trust, health changes, repeated promises and treatment refusals before the person using alcohol or drugs is ready to ask for help.
That is why We Do Recover is built around practical family decision-making. We help families understand what is happening, prepare a treatment pathway, set appropriate boundaries and act when the opportunity for treatment appears.
What We Do Recover does not do
We do not replace the doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker or clinical treatment team responsible for regulated healthcare.
Medical detoxification, prescribing, inpatient rehabilitation, psychiatric treatment and other regulated clinical services are delivered by the appropriately licensed professionals and treatment providers responsible for that care.
Where medical aid is used, the treating provider completes the formal pre-authorisation and clinical motivation.
Help is available 24/7
Tell us what is happening. You do not need to know exactly what kind of treatment is required before making the first call.