Adfam and Collective Voice are excited to announce the launch of a brand-new group, bringing together organisations supporting families affected by substance use and individuals with lived experience, to work together to improve support for affected others. Substance...
Adfam has responded to the Department of Health and Social Care’s Men’s Health Strategy for England call for evidence. This call for evidence will inform the development of a Men’s Health Strategy for England. It sought the views of the public as well as...
Adfam is delighted to be working with the charity Kinship, to provide a number of free in-person and online workshops for kinship carers, on understanding the effects of drug and alcohol misuse on kinship families. Kinship carers are family or friends who step up,...
Adfam’s East Sussex family support service is entering a new chapter. From Tuesday 1st July 2025 our service will be delivered remotely, offering online support to families affected by substance use living across East Sussex. This change has been made in collaboration...
Adfam Online Training 2025 Adfam’s range of CPD accredited training courses provide professionals and practitioners with the skills they need to better support families affected by substance use. Our training is delivered online, via Zoom and we have a number of...
Adfam is thrilled to announce its new service for families affected by substance use living in Coventry, delivered in partnership with Change, Grow, Live. The service, officially launched today, provides remote 1:1 support for people living in Coventry that are...
Start counting. The Government spends many millions tackling drug and alcohol abuse but when it comes to families, sadly they don’t seem to count. We estimate that five million family members and friends are affected by someone else’s substance use. Their support is...
To mark our 40th anniversary, Adfam has published a report that reviews the progress made in public policy and research relating to families, drugs and alcohol over the past forty years. The report documents key changes in national policy over that period and...
John Taylor’s new book ‘Dear… A book of letters from the forgotten families of addiction’ is a heartfelt collection of letters written by family members, expressing their experiences and emotions of the turmoil caused by a loved one’s addiction. “I remember you...
The Global Family Recovery Alliance is running a survey for family members, to support the development of a Global Position Paper on Family Recovery. The Alliance is looking to include as many voices of affected family members, including bereaved family members, as...
