The human cost of britain’s drug problem

Just a child, I had no idea how bad things would get

My five-year-old son Jack* had only been at primary school for a few weeks when we were invited to a birthday party for one of his classmates. Though I barely knew the birthday boy’s mum – a glamorous

When Jess met Kieron, she thought he was the answer to her prayers. Then he trapped her in a nightmare…

The rise and fall of an undervalued institution

When he was just 13, Jordan, now 30, lost his dad to alcohol addiction. A few years later his own battles with substance abuse began

Groomed by a teacher, raped by a gang, now I’m fighting back