Each Time My Eyes Open

This is a true story about the authors? long-term heroin addiction. It is a brutally frank and honest account of her experiences from her early naive and gullible teenage years up to the present day. Courageously, she lays bare a catalogue of depressing and horrific events that she has survived on her journey to the depths of despair. A journey that involves stealing, begging, fraud and drug dealing, that leads to a term in prison. In this book you get an insight into the depressing and desperate daily lifestyle of an addict, written with unusual frankness. Her lifestyle almost destroys the family and friends that she loves. Within her account she makes astute and relevant comments about the way that society treats drug users, and how the Criminal Justice System and the Welfare Services fail to address the drugs issue. Surprisingly she shows a revealing awareness of the subtle influences that resulted in her addiction, as well as the factors that caused her to relapse after numerous attempts to detox. Remarkably, she manages to battle against all the odds to live something close to a normal life, and even has a dream wedding. What comes through most strongly is her sincere determination to ultimately defeat this dreadful affliction. The author doesn?t ask for your pity or sympathy, but there is every chance that your perceptions of drug addiction will change as result of reading this book.