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 [...]
Reflections on my son’s death
This blog was written by Anyone's Child campaigner Brian, whose son, Tom, died three days after his 37th birthday. This blog is the first of a series of reflections [...]
Protection Not Punishment
This blog is written by Anyone's Child campaigner, Brian. People often say that you can never be prepared for the death of your child. I cannot imagine anything more shocking [...]