“It started as a bit of coke at weekends. By the end I was selling the kids' Christmas presents.”
It started as a bit of coke at weekends with the lads. Then someone showed me how to cook it. Within a year I was on crack every day and selling the kids' Christmas presents back to the shop.
Crack is a different animal. The high lasts minutes and the hunger lasts forever. I'd be out at 4am knocking on doors I had no business knocking on.
I did residential treatment in Cuan Mhuire.
I did residential treatment in Cuan Mhuire. It saved me. I relapsed six weeks out. Went back. Relapsed again, shorter this time. Nobody there gave up on me, so I stopped giving up on myself.
I still drink. I know some people will judge that. But I've been off the pipe nineteen months, and I coach under-12s on a Saturday morning. Those kids have no idea who I used to be.
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