A drug addict has shared how his drug habit has affected his life and left him to support himself by stealing in a revealing documentary.
A man has told how his life has been a mess since he’s been addicted to drugs.
Ronnie shared his story in the documentary Ten Dollar Death Trip: Inside The Fentanyl Crisis, available to stream on Flash.
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The drug user lives on the streets and steals to support his Fentanyl habit. He said his life has been dragged through the mud because of his addition.
“I’ve lost friends. I’ve lost family members, and I have nothing. I live on the street,” Ronnie told the program.
“I freeze almost every night and I steal and support myself. I hate my life.
“I wake up in the morning wishing I didn’t, that’s opioid drug use.
“I feel terrible. I wouldn’t wish this on a person. I wouldn’t wish living like this for the person I hate most in the world.”
Ronnie describes Fentanyl as dangerous and a pure terror.
“It feels like something slowly like just pulling your life force out to you,” he said.
“It’s just darkness….you’re dead. You’re a flatline. No heartbeat, dead.”
Ten Dollar Death Trip: Inside The Fentanyl Crisis examines a public health crisis in North America, the synthetic drug Fentanyl, which is killing more people than gun crime, murder and car accidents combined.
According to the feature, the drug is 100 times stronger than heroin, cheap and small enough to post mail. Fentanyl is spreading unprecedented death, destruction and misery.
Medical centre Providence Crosstown Clinic gives pharmaceutical heroin to people in addiction. The place is designed to administer a regulated pharmaceutical given in a medical setting and supervised.
The idea behind the practice is taking people out of a life of street drugs, they have the chance to introduce routine and make life changes.
“When people start with us, they’re using illicit drugs every day and by six months of care with us that goes down to a handful of days a month,” Dr Macdonald, Providence Crosstown Clinic said.
“People reconnect with families, they go back to school, they start working, they get housing
“My most residivit patient had been in and out of jail over 200 times before he came to treatment here and since he’s been in treatment here, he’s not been back to jail.
“That’s a huge success.”
Funded by the government, the move costs $27,000 ($A29,800) a year to supply heroin for one patient.
According to independent research for the documentary, the service saves the taxpayer double that by reducing crime, policing, health care and ambulance call outs.
Originally published as Drug addict opens up about his habit and the impact on his life
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