My sister Sandra died one month before her 40th birthday. She had struggled with addiction since she was 16 years old and eventually died due to this.

We came from a very low socio-economic background with addiction and mental health issues strangling our family. Two comments by two different people stick out the most for me from when I was with her in ICU before I turned off her life support: "Why are you crying?" and "Are you sad?".

I think that says it all about addiction - the wider society is cold and unknowing, those of us in the midst of it, are traumatised.