Every year at about this time the Government publishes the number of drug related deaths registered in England and Wales in the previous year. The 2024 figures will soon be released and will no doubt be accompanied by a call for more to be done. There will be news...
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has launched a new report, Taking Stock: Counting the Economic Costs of Alcohol Harm, funded by Alcohol Change UK. The report argues that tackling alcohol harm must be not just a public health priority but an economic...
This week (6-12 October) is #KinshipCareWeek, a campaign to celebrate the incredible role that kinship carers play in children’s lives and raise awareness of what life is like for kinship families. Kinship care is when a child lives in the care of a family...
Entries for Adfam’s Family Voices 2025 competition are now open! Family Voices is an annual poetry and creative writing competition for anyone with lived experience of a family member’s substance misuse or gambling. The competition provides an opportunity...
Adfam is thrilled to announce that tickets for our Christmas Carol Concert 2025 are now on sale! When? Wednesday 17th December 2025, 6.45pm Where? St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London Tickets: £25 per person – purchase via Adfam’s Eventbrite page...
Adfam’s Chief Executive Vivienne Evans, is a member of the Women’s Treatment Working Group, a group of women in leadership roles, working together to improve support for women affected by drug and alcohol use. Today the Women’s Treatment Working Group...
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,...
Snapshot of the Sector: Support for families affected by substance use Earlier this year Adfam published results from the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken into the support provided to the families and carers of people with drug or alcohol problems. Local...
