Slipping into debt is a terrifying business. Alison Anthony explains the lengths to which ‘collection agencies’ will go to break down the most vulnerable people in society
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Slipping into debt is a terrifying business. Alison Anthony explains the lengths to which ‘collection agencies’ will go to break down the most vulnerable people in society

Alison Anthony Writer and service user is one of four regular Voices columnists

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I’ve been given a book to write. For a time, we lost control of our finances. So creditors ‘passed us’ to debt collection agencies, and their ‘communications’ with us will form the body of the story.

Mental Health Practice. 11, 3, 37-37. doi: 10.7748/mhp.11.3.37.s22

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