A few hours after coming to support the English in Marseille for their first Rugby World Cup match, Kate Middleton returned to work. This Tuesday, September 12, the pretender to the British throne visited the prisoners of HMP High Down Surrey, a prison located in Banstead, in the English county of Surrey. Sponsor of the Forward Trust association, which fights against drug addiction in prison. The 41-year-old Princess of Wales has been campaigning for many years against this scourge which is raging in British prisons.
This Tuesday, the mother of George, Charlotte and Louis came to visit the prisoners to question them about their addiction to hard drugs (cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, etc.). She also wanted to challenge the families of dependent prisoners, in order to raise their awareness and encourage them to convince their loved ones to wean themselves. This prison, exclusively male, has 1,100 prisoners for a capacity of 1,200. Among them, hundreds of prisoners admitted before Kate Middleton or before the Forward Trust association, having become dependent on hard drugs and/or alcohol since the start of their incarceration.
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Kate Middleton helps those who have always suffered
Since her marriage to Prince William celebrated twelve years ago, Kate Middleton made drug addiction one of his biggest daily struggles. She even created an awareness week, which takes place every year in the UK between the last days of October and the first days of November. By working alongside addictologists and psychotherapists, Kate Middleton highlighted the link between childhood trauma and addiction to hard drugs. According to her, people who experienced serious drama when they were children are more inclined to be tempted by drugs.
Three programs to fight demons
”It is proven that experiences during early childhood, before the age of five, have a significant impact on adult life, particularly on resilience, and the ability to cope with adversity” said the Princess of Wales. Banstead prisoners are entitled to three programs to combat their addiction: the first, called The Bridge, is based solely on intense and brutal abstinence; the second, Stepping Stones, consists of providing advice to consumers of alcohol and hard drugs, with the aim of raising their awareness, without forcing them to abstinence; the third, finally, called Family Ties, consists of offering various workshops focused on restoring healthy communication and lost trust between the prisoner and members of his family, the association insisting on the fact that the support of loved ones play a large part in the withdrawal of drug addicts and alcoholics.
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