I always worked, and had a great job with BHP.
I always thought heroin addicts looked like the ‘dribbling junkies’ at Central Station.
I had friends around me who were using;
At 21 my boyfriend injected me with heroin.
It helped to numb my emotional pain.
After a year of others injecting me, I did it myself - I was gone.
I became one of those ‘dribbling junkies’.
That boyfriend is now dead, and I am lucky to have survived.

Heroin ‘sucks your soul’

• Fired from my job
• Losing my family 
• Mixing with the wrong crowd
• A life of crime
• Death threats & violence
• Constantly moving & searching for the next fix
• Watching people around me die
• Living with the shame
• Multiple over-doses

Beating the addiction

• Methadone
• After 3 times in rehab, finally turning the corner
• Taking ‘blockers’\
• I am a mum; I haven’t used for 6 years, I don’t smoke or drink.

I was lucky to escape jail and death; few survive to tell their story.