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 shame is at least partly a consequence of the criminalization of the use of drugs, how that shame leads to isolation, and how that isolation [...]
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 about my son’s death and the circumstances in which it took place. When my beloved son died in April 2020, it was in the middle [...]
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 and distressing, but there are ways in which I had been preparing for it from the moment he was born. I wasn’t ready for it. [...]
This guest blog was written by Penny McCanny, mother of Aidan and Anyone's Child Campaigner. Penny will be speaking at our next webinar, Northern Ireland: Take Drugs Seriously on Thursday 1st April 19:00 BST. Register here. We talk frequently of life changing moments; sometimes about events that are really not all that life [...]
The blog is in response to Home Secretary Priti Patel's Telegraph piece 'People are Dying,' from Anyone's Child member, Pat. Having failed to curb rising drug-related deaths in the UK, the government has now pledged a £148million package to clamp down on county-lines and drugs supply and prevent addiction. While more money is very [...]
Alex's story: as someone with former problematic cocaine use, I think the drug should be legally regulated This is a guest blog by Anyone’s Child activist, Alex, in response to Transform’s new book How to Regulate Stimulants: A practical guide, which explores how a legally regulated market for cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines would protect [...]
This blog is written by Anyone's Child campaigner, Anne-Marie. Anne-Marie's only child might still be alive if ecstasy was regulated. Martha Mary Fernback died aged 15 from an accidental ecstasy overdose on the 20th of July 2013 in Oxford. Her mother Anne-Marie Cockburn has been campaigning over the past few years to [...]
This blog was written by Anyone's Child campaign manager and Transform Deputy CEO, Jane Slater. 14 July marked our five year anniversary since launching Anyone’s Child. Over the past five years we have grown to a network of over 40 UK based families, with a supporting network of over 100 activists and affiliate campaigns running [...]
On 25th June 2020, Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control, Transform Drug Policy Foundation and Support. Don't Punish held a special webinar titled: 'Take Drugs Seriously,' to discuss how legal regulation of the drug market could better protect young and vulnerable people from the harms caused by the illegal market. We received lots of [...]
In this blog, Dr Karina Garcia Reyes shares her experience interviewing Mexican drug cartels for her PHD research. Which sheds light on the catastrophic impact of drug prohibition and how it fails to protect vulnerable people from harm and the futility of governments to fight violence with violence. This article is republished from The Conversation [...]
