Men’s Health Week – Ice Addiction

It started when I was about 15. I was drinking on the weekends and smoking weed. Then I started drinking 3 times a week, I was even drinking on school days. By the time I was 19 I was doing amphetamines, acid, ecstasy, prescription medications, pretty much anything I could get my hands on. It started out recreational but it quickly became a habit. 20 years later and I couldn’t recall 2 consecutive days where I wasn’t either pissed or high.

In the last 5 years, I was introduced to ice and everything just went straight down. It was surprising how quickly things went downhill. After spending 20 years doing drugs, I had built up a bit an immunity to them but ice just grabbed a hold of me. I wasn’t the same person anymore. My Mum used to say that it was like I was possessed.