DrugFAM exists to provide help and support to families, friends or partners affected by the drug and/or alcohol addiction of a loved one.
Our mission is to provide a lifeline of safe, caring and professional support services to give families the strength to break free from the impact of someone else’s drug or alcohol use.
DrugFAM’s strategic aims are to provide support in three main areas:
1) Support to families, friends or partners affected by someone’s addiction to drugs and alcohol. Activities: Weekly support groups, one to one and befriending, telephone help line (7 days a week) and email support
2) Support to a families, friends or partners bereaved by someone’s addiction to drugs and alcohol. Activities: Quarterly support group, Annual bereaved by addiction conference, bespoke bereaved by addiction handbook, one-to-one support and local befriending, Nicholas Mills Memorial Project for 18 – 30 year olds bereaved by addiction (new in 2015), telephone help line (7 days a week) and email support .
3) Education and awareness-raising on the impact of someone’s addiction on communities, families, friends or carers. Activities: Theatre in Education Play ‘Mum, can you lend me twenty quid? What drugs did to my family’ and Forum Theatre Workshops (new in 2015), published book (same title), podcast of play, talks in schools, prisons and elsewhere, bi-annual prison arts competition
