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MICHAEL’S STORY: KICKING CRYSTAL

“MY HANDS WERE starting to resemble my Grandma’s, with large liver spots from injecting. I had to get one of my front teeth recapped as it had rotted away due to smoking over the years, and many others were discoloured.

“They were just the few things that were plainly obvious. The biggest realisation about myself came when I did the biggest slam I’d ever done – over .3 – and found myself virtually comatose sitting on the toilet having an out-of-body experience.

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