Story of Ice addicted filly

Crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as ice is ripping apart the life of an adulthood friend.Described as highly addictive, she has been consuming the drug that can be turned out in makeshift laboratories and which has been having a devastating effects on her.If it wasn't for hermother’s love, she would possibly still be in the grips of an ice addiction.The drug gained her a criminal record and cost her relationships and more than $500,000 worth of contract and it wasn't until her mother made the heart-breaking decision to remove her daughter from her care that she hit dead end."I was less than a daughter at the time, I was off my life,” the Brisbane naive told me.She said she felt gutted and ashamed, like a low-life, like the worst kind of daughter that could exist in this planet and was really at a cross-roads in her life, where she could either continue to use or accept that the problem she had was bigger than herself and seek professional help.She said spending time with like-minded friends meant she was always able to source drugs to fuel her full-blown addiction."To be an addict, you've got to be a very selfish individual," she said."Did it ever really sit right in her soul? The answer from her was no.Although she is two months clean, the Strathpine resident is seeing family relationships  being re-built especially with her mother and siblings."I want to be the best daughter I can be," she said. "I was blessed to have been brought up by a wonderful mother and father and my life deserves that, if nothing else."After her full recovery, she plans to devote her life to helping others, particularly young people, living with addiction in Brisbane.

 Having seen the ice addiction issue first-hand she believes more could be done to help those who fall into addiction."If I could give an addict hope out there, that would be enough," she said. "Should they be two, that's awesome and if  three of them, that's even sweeter.”She narrated how her withdrawals are normally painful but after being addicted for more than half her adult life, she is thankful how rehabilitation has helped her.The mother, who I must state she was my high school teacher, has applied controlled, drug-free environment that givers her the space to develop a new skill set to overcome her addiction. She explained that it was like learning to walk again.Her drug use started with snorting cocaine at a night club in Sydney when she had just exited teenage life.After that, no clubbing or social gathering that was complete without drugs and alcohol.Now aged 28, she said ice drugs had become a crutch in her life."It was just a consuming part of who I was as a young female destined for greater heights in management career.” Over eight years of addiction, ice started off as her friend and ended up as enemy.There's certain traits to be an addict and one of those she has battled with is selfishness which she chronicles as a high level of denial that it's happening. Even though her mother and friends on the outside world looking at her could see it, she was on the inside looking out think everything's fine.It became her partner, and relationship with it turned at some stage where it became her master, eventually ending up a slave to it.Before she really got a grasp of what was going on, she was addicted.A lot of the pressure has been put on the mother in particular. She’s been the ones to pick up the pieces. Even her friends and members of the community surrounding her home aren't immune from the dysfunction and psychosis related to her addiction to Ice.The drug infiltrated her life like nothing else she’d experienced before. This article first appeared here 

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