Debra has become
a spokesperson for families suffering with the ‘hidden’
issue of cannabis use among the young. Over the past 2
years she has given interviews on most TV and radio
channels: Newsnight, GMTV, LK Today, BBC News, BBC
Breakfast, Sky News, ITN, Channel 4, BBC World Service’s
‘World Today’, BBC 5 Live, Radio 1xtra, LBC, Radio
London, and various other local radio stations.
With her son William, she has also been interviewed this
year on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, ITV’s This Morning (with
Eammon Holmes), and BBC News. She and William are
currently taking part in a documentary on cannabis abuse
among the young for the Sky TV series ‘Real Lives’, to
be screened in March 2010 (being produced by MAP TV).
They have also been interviewed by Century Films for a
BBC film on cannabis to be screened in 2010, and for a
radio documentary currently being made for Radio 4.
Debra has also given interviews for many newspapers and
magazines: Daily Mail, Observer, ‘You’ magazine (Mail on
Sunday), Good Housekeeping, Evening Standard, Sunday
Times. Will has also spoken on radio and TV (BBC News)
about his experiences and given extensive newspaper
interviews. See the
TAC web-site for more
info, and media links.