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Women Aged 50+

Pauline
Experiences of cannabis addiction from women aged 50-59
Pauline started smoking cannabis daily in her mid-teens and continued during her twenties while at university.
Amy
audio recording, prescription drugs, cannabis, cannabis habit, depression, heroin, men 40-49, drinking, alcohol problem, ice addiction
As a teenager growing up in the suburbs, Amy felt like she didn’t fit in with the young people in her neighbourhood.
Grace
Experiences with heroin women aged 50-59, heroin
Grace began taking heroin in her twenties and has taken it fairly regularly since then.
Helen
Experiences with heroin women aged 50-59
When Helen was in her twenties, she ‘drifted into’ a ‘population of people’ who took heroin and began taking it herself.
Rachel
Experiences with heroin women aged 50-59
Rachel began taking heroin, cannabis and cocaine in her late teens, and says her consumption ‘escalated’ in her early twenties.
Annemarie
audio recording, prescription drugs, cannabis, cannabis habit, depression, heroin, men 40-49, drinking, alcohol problem, ice addiction
When she was in her early twenties, Annemarie experienced anxiety and panic attacks, and was prescribed benzodiazepines.