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Paul is now in T.H.O.M.A.S. I have just come from Lancaster Prison. My life has been based on hard drugs. I am enjoying myself here at T.H.O.M.A.S. In twenty two years of addiction, I have caused pain and trouble to everyone and damage that I have done to myself, I have just left a trail of destruction everywhere.Coming to T.H.O.M.A.S. has opened my eyes to all sorts of things. I have been in prison five times all for drug-related crimes. The last three times have been for burglaries. I realized that I needed to change my life, because I would have ended up dead. I was living on the streets, eating out of skips, sleeping in cars, anywhere I could get my head down and sleep. I was very lonely, always on my own. I used to withdraw into myself, I was suicidal. It’s not a nice place to be. Two years ago I lost my mother and I blamed myself. I knew that I had to change. That was my rock bottom; my mother dying and me not being there for her. I was still using after she died but that’s when I knew I had to change. I went to the grave to see her for the last time and then I went and handed myself into the police. I had two bags of heroin on me and I flushed them down the toilet. I thought that’s it. It’s stolen twenty two years of my life with my family and my mum and dad. Things had to change. |
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