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1.3 million children under the age of 16 are living in homes where one of the parents has a serious drug or drink problem.

Find out more about our new campaign and how, by supporting Addaction, you can help change this 1.3 million figure.

You may have seen an advert like the one above. It’s one of many that we’re using to promote Addaction’s new fundraising appeal.

Our aim is to turn around the lives of thousands of young people; preventing them from becoming long-term drug addicts and alcohol abusers, and improving the lives of thousands more family members and the wider community.

You can read more about our new appeal here. You can also find out more about the people in our adverts, like Ellie (above) who is attends a project run by Addaction in Halton, Cheshire.

Only recently, Ellie was interviewed by the BBC and, in this video, you can hear her (along with Colin, who works for us) talk about the support she receives from Addaction.

Addaction is launching a major awareness campaign for drug and alcohol treatment in the UK today.

An advertising campaign for a £10 million fundraising appeal will target head-on the perception of drug and alcohol treatment as an unfashionable and unpopular cause to support. The appeal has been launched to respond to the scale of drug and alcohol addiction among young people in the UK.

Read more of this press release

One in five young people say they think their parents have taken drugs and of those, one in ten say they think their parents still take drugs, according to a survey published today by Addaction.

You can download a copy of the survey here and read a press release about the findings here.