Homeless people 'fighting
a losing battle against addiction'
A report by the homelessness charity Crisis reveals that in spite of widespread
addiction to drink and drugs amongst homeless people, they do not get
the help they need and have little hope of overcoming their problems.
The research found that a staggering 81 per cent of homeless people interviewed
were addicted to either drink or drugs but only one in seven had received
any help for their addiction in the month before their interviews. "Punishing
vulnerable homeless people for falling off the wagon makes no sense at
all; relapses are an inevitable part of the road to recovery," said
Shaks Ghosh, chief executive of Crisis.
Welsh Aids hospice fights to survive
A respected Aids hospice in north Wales is fighting for its survival.
The Tyddyn Bach Centre in Penmaenmawr near Conway needs to raise £120,000
in the next eighteen months in order to buy the building from a Roman
Catholic religious order in Manchester. The residential respite centre
has looked after people with the virus from across the UK for over four
years and in the last year has had people staying from 17 different nationalities
but receives no public funding. To help Tyddyn Bach, telephone 01492 623322
or visit: www.tyddynbachtrust.org.uk.
New mobile phone sex survey for teenagers
A youth charity is sending out thousands of sex surveys to teenagers'
mobile phones this month in a bid to encourage safer sex practices. The
survey asks 16 -17 year-olds to text back answers to questions about condom
use and attitudes to contraception. Neil Almond, chief executive of the
charity K-Generation, said: "This is about going beyond the 'wear
a condom' message and saying 'OK, what's getting in the way of that?'"
For details, visit: www.kikass.com
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