the sort of place we know can be especially vulnerable to drug and alcohol problems. but this is a community which is fighting back. and here in birkenhead they've come up with this concept of a recovery village. what is that? a recovery village? well, there are already loads of different services here working to help people struggling with addiction, but now they're working together in much closer cooperation, so the rehab hub, the recovery cafe down here, and the place where groups meet for mutual support round the corner, they're all working in really close co—ordination to get people off the drink and off the drugs. it is organisations coming together, as a collective on the wirral to work with a kind of shared goal. so we will do this test for you today... one of the main players here is wirral ways, a drug and alcohol service, and they're right at the heart of the recovery village. it's notjust another person that is coming in, it's an individual and that individual has got their own needs, their own self—defined