Family Voices 2024 runner-up: Adrift, by Jude Lockwood

Jan 9, 2025

Congratulations to Family Voices 2024 runner-up, Jude Lockwood with her entry, Adrift. Adfam’s Family Voices Competition is a poetry and creative writing competition, for families affected by substance use to share their story and creatively express their thoughts and...

Family Voices 2024 runner-up: Only Hope, by Kathleen Bryson

Jan 9, 2025

Congratulations to Family Voices 2024 runner-up, Kathleen Bryson with her entry, Only Hope. Adfam’s Family Voices Competition is a poetry and creative writing competition, for families affected by substance use to share their story and creatively express their...

Adfam at 40 – a conversation with Rose

Mar 1, 2024

“Just because someone is living with their parents at a given time, doesn’t mean they are necessarily prepared for them to stay there, and for them to financially support them. Services need to be asking not just the person with the issue but the family, ‘are you coping?’ and ‘how long can you cope for before it gets too much?’

A Mother’s Letter to Her Son

Jul 21, 2023

This is an unsent letter from a mother to her son called ‘I am not having it’, which has been kindly shared with us in the hope that it will help other mothers going through what she is going through. I am not having it ‘Whatever you say AND forever and a day, “I am...

‘Need’, by Kristy

Jan 30, 2023

Read the runner-up from Adfam’s Family Voices Competition 2022. Family Voices is an annual poetry and creative writing competition open to families affected by substance use to share their experiences. Needed. They needed it, but I always thought it was a choice....
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