Welcome to Breaking Free Group, a pioneering digital health
and behavioural science company specialising in addictions

Devices

We develop, implement and evaluate evidence-based digital behaviour change interventions that use proven behavioural science to empower people to overcome problem drinking, drug misuse and smoking.

Our innovations include three world-firsts in digital healthcare:

  • Computer-assisted therapy that enables recovery from dependence on drugs including opiates and new psychoactive substances
  • Internet-based interventions for substance-involved offenders in prisons that provide essential continuity of care between custody and community
  • Clinically-robust public health interventions that address smoking and problem drinking on a population-wide scale

Our solutions are commissioned in the UK by a wide range of organisations including NHS England, the Ministry of Justice, the Welsh Government, Local Authorities, NHS Trusts and national providers of substance misuse treatment and recovery services.

They are also approved by Ontario Health for rapid adoption by healthcare providers across the province of Ontario, and nationally via Canada Health Infoway.

To date, we have delivered clinical interventions to over 100,000 individuals, and evidenced their impact through 36 studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.


SEE WHAT WE DO



OUR SOLUTIONS


SPECIALIST ALCOHOL


& DRUG SERVICES

A clinically-proven digital solution that addresses dependence on over 70 substances - including opiates and new psychoactive substances - through self-management and Computer-Assisted Therapy delivered by clinicians and practitioners.

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PRISONS


& PROBATION

An integrated set of CSAAP-accredited digital, group and keyworking interventions that target the links between substance misuse and offending; and a digital smoking cessation programme developed specifically for use in prisons.

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PUBLIC HEALTH


& PRIMARY CARE

Digital health innovations that enable Public Health teams and CCGs to facilitate smoking cessation and reduce alcohol-related harm through early intervention and prevention on a population-wide scale in the most cost-effective way.

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OUR LATEST NEWS


LIFEWORKS ACQUIRES BREAKING FREE, A LEADING PROVIDER OF DIGITAL SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT

January 2022

LifeWorks, a leading provider of comprehensive mental health, digital and in-person total wellbeing solutions, announced the acquisition of Breaking Free, a provider of evidence-based behavioural health SaaS solutions for substance use intervention.

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OUR LATEST RESEARCH


ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN BASELINE PARTICIPANT DEMOGRAPHIC, CLINICAL AND COMPLEXITY CHARACTERISTICS ON TREATMENT OUTCOMES FOR INDIVIDUALS ACCESSING ‘BREAKING FREE ONLINE’, A COMPUTER-ASSISTED THERAPY PROGRAM FOR OPIOID USE DISORDERS

Elison-Davies, S., Märtens, K., Yau, C., Davies, G. & Ward, J.

EXAMINING CORRELATES OF CANNABIS USERS’ ENGAGEMENT WITH A DIGITAL INTERVENTION FOR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER: AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF CLIENTS IN UK SERVICES DELIVERING ‘BREAKING FREE ONLINE’

Elison-Davies, S., Wardell, J., Quilty, L., Ward, J. & Davies, G.

Two papers have recently been published examining the mechanisms of action of the Breaking Free from Substance Use digital intervention for different substance using populations.

The first of these papers has been published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse and has been written in collaboration with Kaspar Martens (University of Oxford)...

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ORGANISATIONS WE WORK WITH


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NHS Manchester LogoCranstoun LogoNHS Inclusion LogoOntario Health Logo