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...

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...

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...

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 so...

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...

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...

Hi, I am a thirty-something woman and member of the CMA fellowship. I have been clean for three and a half years. During this time my world has changed more than you will probably believe. This is my story of how I came to be a CMA member. I grew up in the suburbs of...

Hi. We may not know each other, but if you are reading this now there is a good chance we have at least one thing in common. Just over a year ago, during a desperate search online for ways to “cure” an addiction to crystal meth, I found this site. I read every last...

Hi there, my name is Antonio. I am a 27 year old recovering addict. Damn that sounds great to identify like that! I wasn’t sure if I would be able to write something like this, to tell my story. I guess I was afraid that some people might judge me. I’m a survivor of...