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About Anyone's Child

Anyone's Child is a network of families who have been negatively affected by our drug laws.

Three years on and change is happening

By |2020-10-16T10:05:05+01:00July 13th, 2018|Uncategorized|

This blog was written by Jane Slater, Anyone's Child campaign manager 14 July is our three year anniversary - here are some of the highlights from the past three years: “When I joined Anyone’s Child I wasn't sure what I had to offer the group - but I knew my boys would have wanted me [...]

“I felt energised and empowered” – Anyone’s Child lobby MPs to end the drug war

By |2020-10-16T10:05:05+01:00July 5th, 2018|Uncategorized|

This blog was written by our intern, Olly Last week, I had the pleasure of working for Transform as an intern. It was a fascinating time, the undoubted highlight of which was travelling to Westminster, on 26 June, alongside the Anyone’s Child campaign. In tandem with the UN’s International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit [...]

The blog I wish I didn’t need to write

By |2020-10-16T10:05:05+01:00May 31st, 2018|Uncategorized|

Is there anybody else out there who has had a child criminalised or imprisoned for a drug offence and feels that it was cruel and unjust? Is there anyone who knows that their child’s life was changed or blighted unnecessarily, and will stick their neck out and say so, to try to end this cruel [...]

Going hard on drugs is a disastrous mistake

By |2020-10-16T10:05:05+01:00May 29th, 2018|Uncategorized|

“Campaigners are tragically misguided in claiming that decriminalisation will solve anything,” wrote Melanie Phillips in a dangerously misleading article about the UK’s current approach to drugs. The article comes as a response to the tragic deaths of two more young people to accidental ecstasy overdoses at a festival last weekend. We are appalled. How did [...]

Public Event: Devon Takes Drugs Seriously

By |2020-10-16T10:05:05+01:00May 10th, 2018|Uncategorized|

    Devon Takes Drugs Seriously: Bereaved families, ex-undercover cop and South West charity call for drugs to be legalised and regulated.   "Banning the production, sale and use of drugs endangers us all, but particularly the most vulnerable. Legal regulation would put doctors, pharmacists and government in control of the drug trade, and put [...]

How to End Mexico’s Drug War – Anyone’s Child Mexico launch review

By |2020-10-16T10:05:05+01:00April 13th, 2018|Uncategorized|

This review was written by Calum Smith, Anyone's Child Families for Safer Drug Control Since the increased militarisation of the Mexican government’s drug war in 2006, Mexico has lost over 150,000 citizens to murder, and over 28,000 people have disappeared. Each person is someone’s partner, parent, friend, or child. And each day, another 80 people [...]

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