Health
‘There is happiness on the other side.’ A survivor of drug addiction speaks out – SBS News
In 2018 drug overdoses killed 2,070 Australians, eclipsing the amount of fatalities on our nation’s roads that year.
Lily Owen, 29, admits she is lucky to still be alive.
Four years ago, a toxic drug addiction almost turned into a fatal overdose.
I was using methamphetamines daily, she told SBS News.
I was also mixing that with benzos (Benzodiazepines), so Valium and GHBs (Gamma-hydroxybutyrate).
“It got to a point that I was using anything and everything to feel anything, just to sort of feel something.”
Ms Owen was warned from a young age about the dangers of narcotics.
But struggling with her mental h…
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