I must be desperate to be even doing this as Im not IT literate but after watching the documentry last night your case inspired me, and I just felt I needed to share my story. A very quick background is that I have come from reasonable background, have always worked and provided for my family and have always tried to do my best to inspire good manners and ensuring both my children know right from wrong.

However somewhere I went wrong with my eldest son Jamie, or so I beleived. Jamie was always a difficult child from the age of …

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Dear Debra,

I saw your programme last night and just felt compelled to email you.

My brother has been a drug addict for many years and my mother has fed clothed and just hoped that one day he would get off it. My mum suffered terrible violence as a result of his drug dependency and unfortunately would not turn her back on him. She believed him when he said he was off of the drugs even though I told her he wasn’t. One of my other siblings took their own …

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Hi Debra

I am approaching my wits end. My son has been smoking skunk for approx 5 years. He is 18 now and completely off the plot. It has been getting progressively worse over the last year and he now has a bong first thing in the morning and goes to work (a casual job where some work colleagues also smoke) and comes home and blows his brains out during the evening. I have been trying to get him to stay off for 30 days – no success although he …

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Dear Debra

I’m 23 and doing quite well for myself…I was one of the lucky ones. I, like all teenagers, hit a rebellious stage in life and started going about with the wrong crowd of people. I started smoking at 12 and started using cannabis at 13. For a couple of years or so I smoked cannabis on a fairly regular basis and was getting through 15-20 cigarettes daily.

I come from a middle class area, attended a very good state school (often out performing some of the local independent …

good day to y’all, no i ain’t a yank.,.]
my first addiction was alcohol as a foetus
my second addiction was to nicotine first as a foetus and then as a baby/small child. my father smoking heavily was to impair my lungs from growing correctly and i was diagnosed with asthma before my teens
i didn’t used to like going out as a child, was i already passively addicted to cigarette smoke. i would argue yes

funnily enough i didn’t come into contact with illegal drugs until after joining the royal navy altho once they found out i was given …