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Tom has come to our project directly from prison. I just got released from prison on Friday and now Im at THOMAS.
I first started using drugs when I was twelve. I began with cannabis friends. I got in the wrong group. When I was fourteen I got introduced to heroin. I started going out thieving and burgling anything I could to feed my habit. My habit got worse and worse. I began to thieve off my mum and dad.
My mum and dad sent me abroad to try and get me off it. I went to Spain for two weeks with two of my other friends who were on drugs. We all got off it and we were doing really well but we got back into the same crowd. I started using again. My mum and dad tried to get me off it again. For my seventeenth birthday they bought me a car, paid for my driving lessons and my insurance. I stayed off it again for a bit. When I was nineteen I met my girlfriend Lisa. She was on heroin. I didnt know at the time. It was only after three months together that we found out each other was on it. Weve been together for four years now. We have two children who are in voluntary care at the moment and one thats just been born two weeks old. Lisas going into a rehab with the baby to sort herself out. If we both do well well get the other two children back from the foster parents. Im hoping that everything will be alright. It takes time. Ive just got back in touch with my dad after two years. We are back on speaking terms and getting on well. I dont get on with my mum because shes seeing Lisas step-dad and hes a heroin user. She was always anti-drugs with me but now shes paying for heroin for him. In the
future all I hope is that I stay off drugs and keep clean, get my children
back, get my own house and a good job. I want to be able to give my children a
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