23 February 2017
See the person, not the drug
Queensland will take part in a campaign to end the shame and stigma often experienced by families of people living with problematic alcohol or other drug use.
National Family Drug Support Day on 24 February highlights the need to look past the stigma of drug use and instead see the person who is someone’s son, daughter, sister, brother, mother or father.
Prominent campaigner Tony Trimingham of Family Drug Support said: “Behind every statistic of a drug-related overdose death, arrest or hospitalisation there is a family suffering pain. All too often in a cloud of stigma and shame.”
National Family Drug Support Day on 24 February highlights the need to look past the stigma of drug use and instead see the person who is someone’s son, daughter, sister, brother, mother or father.
Prominent campaigner Tony Trimingham of Family Drug Support said: “Behind every statistic of a drug-related overdose death, arrest or hospitalisation there is a family suffering pain. All too often in a cloud of stigma and shame.”
