If it hadn’t been for Amber I’d either be dead or spending the rest of my life in prison, through drugs and crime and just various things I was getting in to...

How Amber transformed my life










Life before I went to amber was very up and down, I would have good days and bad days, always doing petty crime like shop lifting and theft just to make money to get drugs. It was a very poor and dull way of life.

How Amber transformed my life









With my Dad and brothers into drugs it was hard to escape, particularly when my brother spiked my drink with drugs. I was just 16. By the time I came to Amber I was in the gutter and as low as I could get, living in a tent and getting into more and more hard drugs. Amber was the saving of me.

How Amber transformed my life








I started at Amber after coming of heroin. I found it hard at first, especially if I was having a bad day, but being able to recognise I was having a bad day and being able to say to the staff how I felt was a great breakthrough. After a while the bad days got less and I was having more good ones. My 30th birthday was definitely a good one. It was the cleanest birthday I had had for years and I even had a chocolate cake made for me, which was really nice.

How Amber transformed my life






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