President’s Annual Report 2018
2018 has seen an unprecedented amount of action in support of drug law reform. Most notably this has involved Uniting’s fair treatment campaign launched in...
Category: Remembrance
Get behind fair treatment – Bill Bush
Our remembrance ceremony just past is the most moving, most important, most profound event of our year. It sums up what Families and Friends is...
Chaplain Caitlin Kensey Scott’s address at Remembrance Ceremony
How do we gather strength for the journey, when some of the ones we travelled with have fallen behind? It is in the returning again...
Ann Finlay’s Reflections at Remembrance Ceremony
We were a fairly ordinary family who had many difficult experiences but no major trials or tribulations, until Paul’s mental health deteriorated and his descent...
FFDLR Newsletter October 2018
Articles in this issue include Pill testing by Bill Bush Uniting’s Fair Treatment Campaign ATODA’s Drug Policy Series Cannabis legalisation in the ACT Remembrance Ceremony...
23rd Annual Remembrance Ceremony
The 23rd Annual Remembrance Ceremony ‘for those who lose their lives to illicit drugs’ will be held on Monday 29th October, 12.30pm at the memorial...
FFDLR Newsletter November 2017
Newsletter contains information on AGM & BBQ Thursday 23rd November Moving Forward – pill testing and injecting rooms Report on Remembrance Ceremony Starving Welfare Recipients...
Ceremony remembers a record number of overdose deaths
Contrary to all our hopes and in defiance of all our efforts over the past 22 years to prevent drug users dying, the 22nd annual...
22nd Annual Remembrance Ceremony ‘for those who lose their lives to illicit drugs’
Everyone is welcome to attend this special ceremony to be with people who understand the loss of so many loved family members – a loss...
Internationaler Gedenktag für verstorbene Drogengebraucher_innen am 21. Juli 2017 Botschaft aus Australien
Message from Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform to our friends in Germany as they commemorate International Memorial Day for deceased drug users on 21 July, 2017 Human rights also for drug users! Yes, your sister organisation from the bottom of the world joins you in promoting that theme for the international day to remember drug users who have died. Frustration, tears and anger well up when we recall the suffering and harm inflicted on families and society as well as to drug users ....