26 Sep Ice – Tiffany
Tiffany started taking ice in her early twenties to lose weight. After a while her consumption increased to every other day. At the time she was working full-time, caring for her children and experiencing domestic violence. ...
26 Sep Ice – Renee
During her teens Renee smoked cannabis daily with her then partner. The relationship ended when she was in her early twenties and it was around this time that she began taking ecstasy and ice about once a month with friends. A few years later she...
26 Sep Heroin – Zadie
During her teens and twenties, Zadie says she took heroin ‘here and there’, as well as cannabis, LSD, speed, cocaine, and ecstasy. During periods of more frequent heroin use, she says she developed ‘small dependencies’, feeling that she physically needed it ‘to function’. On these...
26 Sep Ice – Zoe
When Zoe was in her late twenties, she began taking ice occasionally when enjoying a night out with friends on weekends. Over the next year, she started taking it more often, until it became part of her daily routine. She’s completed a home detox, attended...
25 Sep Heroin – Sophie
Sophie first tried cannabis as a pre-teen, after seeing her sisters smoking it. She then began smoking cannabis regularly. After some time, she started smoking heroin through a bong and then when she found she ‘wasn’t getting a kick anymore’ she started to inject it....
25 Sep Cannabis – Nadia
Nadia began smoking cannabis daily in her mid-teens. She says this helped her cope with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She was referred to alcohol and other drug counselling by staff at her high school, and later completed several residential detox programs. In her early twenties,...
25 Sep Heroin – Kate
Kate began taking heroin every day in her late teens. In her twenties she took it on and off, stopping when pregnant with each of her children or when undertaking a drug treatment program. Over the years she’s completed a youth detox program and a...
24 Sep Heroin – Josie
Josie first tried heroin in her early teens and has taken it fairly regularly since then, with long periods when she stopped taking it while pregnant. She now takes heroin about once a week and is on opioid pharmacotherapy treatment (methadone maintenance treatment, MMT)....
24 Sep Cannabis – Jenna
Jenna began smoking cannabis regularly in her early twenties, and has continued to do so into her thirties. After about five years of regular cannabis consumption she began to think she might be experiencing an ‘addiction’ to cannabis. Over the years she’s stopped taking it...
22 Sep Alcohol – Dawn
In her late twenties Dawn started drinking heavily on Saturdays when her children were visiting their grandmother. One Saturday evening when out with her friends she was arrested for violent behaviour, and court ordered to attend an anger management course and alcohol and other drug...
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