Brad’s Story

How it was I grew up in a small town in North Queensland with a mum who is a paediatric intensive care physician and a dad who’s both and an electrical engineer and mechanical engineer. I also have two younger brothers who are both electrical engineers. So I come from...

Anonymous’ Story

My parents divorced when I was three and I grew up living with my mum and step dad. Every second weekend my older brother and I would stay at our dads place. My dad is an alcoholic and from my earliest memories he was smoking weed in front of us. He was always growing...

Sparkle’s story

I have been in the program now for over 5 years. About 18 months of that was a mess of regular relapsing, then I started actually putting in the work after a particularly nasty relapse and I’ve been clean for about 3 and a half years. So I know compared to a lot of...

Chris’s story

My life is so full. I have freedom, hope and dreams and I wouldn’t trade it for any amount of drugs on the planet. But that was not the case when I finally asked for help. I was 22, unemployed, and attending a compulsory resume course for the government. I was...

Country Kid’s story

I grew up in a small country town in the heart of the Riverina (in the Murrumbidgee irrigation area). I grew up with both parents and four sisters. When I was seven I was diagnosed with ADD. By the time I was nine it had been changed to ADHD where it stayed until I...

Glyn’s story

So, I want to tell my story. I’ve never written my story before but I have heard other people tell me theirs and I hear mine so here goes…. My name is Glyn and I am a recovering Crystal Meth addict. This is easy for me to say today but that wasn’t always the case. You...
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