Following the huge success of Addiction Awareness Week 2023, part of our ongoing campaign work is to continue promoting the amazing work across our partner community.
Julie Hughes, a Nacoa ambassador and volunteer, kindly created this excellent poem which cleverly aligns to the campaign theme 'Everybody Knows Somebody'.
The poem explores shame, secrecy and despair, yet Julie's words end on an optimistic note - both in terms of the support that's out there (Nacoa and all of the partners supporting Taking Addiction on Addiction), but also in entering recovery.
We know that recovery is possible, and this was recently demonstarted in our groundbreaking film of the same name, 'Everybody Knows Somebody'.
We'd like to thank Julie and the Nacoa team for this amazing and heartfelt contribution.
Julie Hughes, Nacoa ambassador and volunteer