Walking in the shoes of an Addict.
Lenah’s story Nothing compares to the chaos and turmoil of addiction. Drug addiction is a hungry beast and feeding this beast is a full time job because of the constant desperations to avoid withdrawals. Drug addiction took Lenah to depths that she still finds so hard to perceive to date. Growing up, this was a very selfless kid who would help everyone in need. She was always there for everyone or at least most people. Many people began taking advantage of her due to her naivety and so she started holding back and bottling up so many emotions. While she can’t say with certainty why she ever abused drugs in the first place, Lenah still remembers every tiny detail of the first time she came into contact with cocaine. She was with a group of friends and one of them was a peddler. One day they decided to try it consoling themselves that it was only out of curiosity and that it was going to be just that once. When Lenah sniffed it, she felt something that she couldn’t explain. S
