Recovering addicts design upcycled chairs to highlight society’s addiction to ‘stuff’
A social enterprise which works to tackle unsustainable consumerism and end stigma around addiction is showcasing work at this week’s London Design Festival
Accepting addiction
After drug addiction left her homeless and isolated, Mary Parkinson finally got clean 26 years ago. She has learned how to befriend the most difficult aspects of her personality – and to treat [...]
How helping others could be the key to fighting addiction
New research into positive social connections could help drug and alcohol addicts stay sober and change the way we treat addiction
Doing time: how we can all be freed from our own personal prisons
Though we may not be locked up in a cell, we are all prisoners to something, argues former convict Brett Moran. But we can be freed
Dealing with drugs
More than 30 years since its inception, the US-led ‘war on drugs’ has done little to slow the rate of drug dependence and misuse around the world, and even less to address the causes. Ahead of [...]
Portugal addiction rates halved after community, not jail, is trialled as solution
UK politicians have been urged to decriminalise the use and possession of most drugs after addiction rates in Portugal were cut by half following decriminalisation in the country almost 15 years ago
