‘You see the bright young things marching down the street behind a band but you don’t see the ones who are struggling with a drug and alcohol problem. They are not marching. They are the forgotten army.’

The forgotten army

‘You see the bright young things marching down the street behind a band but you don’t see the ones who are struggling with a drug and alcohol problem. They are not marching. They are the forgotten army.’

by Judy Kirby 20th October 2010

Tony White is company secretary and a former chief executive of the drug and alcohol charity CAIS in north Wales. He is a more outspoken critic of government funding than his colleague and friend Dafydd Jones, who founded CAIS.

The forgotten army

‘You see the bright young things marching down the street behind a band but you don’t see the ones who are struggling with a drug and alcohol problem. They are not marching. They are the forgotten army.’

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