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Can you spare a few hours of your time each week or month? Do you want to help a worthy cause? If so, FOL is looking for people to join our Sharing by Doing team. Have a look at our Guide to Volunteering with FOL and get in touch today....

Article published in issue 7 of Celebrate, available now in Trowbridge Town Hall.

Families Out Loud Volunteer opportunity for someone who's working in, or wants to get into Digital Marketing.

Families Out Loud launched four years ago, and today we support many people across Wiltshire who are living with addiction in the family. The board of trustees is now recruiting two individuals who have the expertise and enthusiasm to help with the day-to-day running...

Damaris Broad was at the Families Out Loud stand at the DHI conference in Bristol last weekend.  She said "It was great to network with others working in the field of families and substance misuse. Adfam and Al-Anon members were present so it was a good opportunity to...

Volunteers Week – 1st to 7th June This Volunteers Week, we’d like to give a big shout-out to all Families Out Loud volunteers who work tirelessly for our cause. Our amazing team have one thing in common – belief in our mission to support families of drug & alcohol...

Stigmatising someone who uses drugs or alcohol is cruel in the extreme - this powerful video makes the point very well. However, it overlooks a situation many of us find ourselves in when the person who is abusing substances refuses to be helped. Families often...

It is a year ago this week since my 41-year-old son died. He had been an alcoholic for many years but ironically it was not drink that killed him. He overdosed on non-prescription painkillers – his action, almost certainly, a tragic accident but we will never know for...

Boundaries allow you to draw a line between what is acceptable, and what you are not prepared to tolerate, within a relationship. When a loved-one is abusing drugs or alcohol, their chaos can often affect your life and boundaries will help you to manage your own...

Last year I wrote about my son's ongoing battle with drugs and how a mental disorder can lead to drug abuse. In the book I described how difficult it is for someone with a disorder to control their use of substances such as legal or illegal drugs, alcohol or...