Mustafa Hameed

When addiction is discussed in policy or service settings, it is often framed around individuals, treatment pathways, or enforcement. But when women in Rochdale speak about addiction, a different picture emerges—one rooted in family life, cultural expectation, and the everyday environments in which people live.

The Future of South Asian Youth in Rochdale: A Drug Crisis Hidden Behind Silence

As the Project Coordinator of the Salik Project UK, I've spend the last few months trying to understand why help so often comes late for some families. My reading would inevitably lead back to Dame Carol Black’s From Harm to Hope  review. Black's review directed a powerful critique to the attitudes and approaches by successive governments to drug rehabilitation and recovery policy not because it offered quick solutions, but because it acknowledged complexity. Published in 2021, the review...