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Kiri finally gets out of jail. But will her new found determination to stay clean last? Read on for the conclusion of Kiri’s story….
In part two we heard how Kiri’s worsening addiction to heroin dragged her further and further away from the person she wanted to be and eventually led to her arrest. Here we pick up the story just after the police have stormed her flat
In part one we heard about Kiri’s growing addiction to heroin. In part two we follow the paths that this addiction led her to take, despite her best efforts to get clean.
This story starts at the end of the bad life I endured since the age of 16, I am now 26 years of age and have led a hard life – drugs, crime, prison. Life was horrible and hard and no matter what anyone did or said I couldn’t see what I was doing to myself or my family.
My name is Brian and I am aged 39 at time of writing this. It is not being written to gain attention or sympathy in any way. I was brought up in care, moved around from one children’s home to another for most of my teenage years, due to my mother having a mental illness and my father having died when I was eight.
I went to a Christian rehab for four months, where I had to give up smoking, tv, music – basically everything. I also had to go to church three times a week an average of three hours at a time. I also did this cold turkey as they didn’t allow any form of treatment.
My life slowly became more and more entrenched in the drug world – shop-lifting, buying, selling and finding ways and means to get more .I had heard of Narcotics Anonymous but I never thought people like me got clean. This was reinforced by doctors and key workers who kept telling me I had used for too long and should just stick to my script
Each day I tried to crawl out of depression I fell back in the same way. Why bother? It would only return anyway, and, one definition of insanity is the repetition of the same action expecting a different result – so wasn’t I sinking further into insanity each time? The debates with the ‘internal bully’ were frankly “nae a fair fight”.
From the age of three years old, I’ve had a number of psychiatric diagnoses, ranging from childhood psychosis, ADHD and bipolar disorder. I was therefore brought up ’different’ and have only known myself as being different. I was an intelligent child, yet I had a true inability to get along with my peers – a very low emotional IQ.
Hi, the name I’m using is Strut. I’m 35 and for many of those years I was using substances such as solvents, cannabis, speed, LSD, alcohol and heroin. I lost a lot of friends and partners due to this and nearly lost myself. I lived in a murky dark world with my addiction ruling my life.
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