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</font></b><font color="#006666"><font color="#000000">"Ours wasn't
a very happy family - Dad left when I was about 12 and I was very aggressive
as a teenager. A real rebel. I was always in trouble and tried all sorts
of drugs until I was 18 when I got into heroin. It was boredom as much
as anything. I was unemployed and just spent all week staring at the ceiling.
Heroin became my life - it gave me something to do. Stealing money to
buy, finding a dealer, taking the drug, getting high, coming down, off
out to buy some more. Most of the time I was out of it.</font></font></font></p>
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It really is a sad person's drug - there is nothing glamorous about heroin
at all. This went on for a few years, but then my girlfriend got pregnant
and I really did not want to be a junkie father. I went for treatment
and it was really tough at first and there were a few slips along the
way. But I stuck at it and now I'm completely off heroin. I still get
the odd feeling for it, if there are problems, but instead I probably
drink too much. It's hard, but I'm getting there".</font></font></font></p>
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