Legally regulating drugs is the way forward
Have you heard? Legal regulation is in and prohibition is out. Front cover of Cosmopolitan UK The drug war is SO last season… …harm reduction is SO [...]
It’s been 4 years since my son died
Hilary at the Anyone's Child lobby of Parliament 2022 It’s been 4 years since my son Ben died from a heroin overdose. I would like to say [...]
Reflections on the Anyone’s Child Lobby of Parliament 2022
Photographs of lost loved ones lay next to forget-me-not flowers. As a new day dawned on prohibition Britain, activists across the country prepared to join the Anyone's [...]
Legal Regulation in Colombia
Almost a century of evidence demonstrates that punitive, enforcement-led approaches to drugs have failed everywhere they have been tried. Prohibition and criminalisation were supposed to eradicate drug markets, deter people [...]
Remembering Tom
All grief is isolating. We cannot help but feel that we are alone in the pain and the sadness of our loss. But in many ways I have been [...]
‘A Vicious Cycle’: criminalization, shame and relapse
This blog was written by Brian, a member of the Anyone's Child Family Network. In my previous blog post, I talked about the shame associated with drug taking: how that [...]