More personal stories:

Natalie's story: part 1
"… I was lost. I didn't know where I was going, what was happening… I did consciously think 'I'm scared' but I didn't see any way out. I felt completely trapped. I absolutely hated using gear because of what it was doing. I couldn't do anything. John controlled me and the heroin controlled me and that was it."

Natalie's story: part 2
"I really didn't know that you got into bed and I was there one night and I thought 'Well, what do you do? You must put your nighty on.' It'd been so long since I'd done it. And so, I put my nighty on and I got in bed and I thought 'Well what do you do now?' I was in bed and I thought 'Right, people set their alarms don't they?' so I did that and the feeling was so strange, I hadn't done it for years."

Natalie's story: part 3
"But now I am so happy and that dream of adulthood is far better than I ever imagined. I feel free and very fortunate. Most people who come here are really shocked when they find out I'm a recovering heroin addict."

David N's story
"If you can't give up smoking, definitely don't start taking heroin because you'll never be able to stop taking heroin."

Debbie's story
" You feel like you're in this little bubble and nobody can burst it but at the same time, you don't realise how much danger you're in. Nobody ever told me that they'd been on it [heroin] for ten years so I thought it was something like I've always done - picked up and put down… with the speed I could stop… It [heroin] was a completely new experience. I didn't understand how serious it was."