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The first time she tried crack she was at a friend’s house. "I smoked it for three or four years and then I started injecting." She said: "When my father killed himself, I tried coping with his death blocking it out with heroin. After that came party drugs such as ecstasy or speed as well as depressants like benzodiazepines. Rhiannon has been 'snowballing' for a year but has used drugs since her early teens when, like many before her, she started smoking cannabis. Rhiannon’s life revolves around drugs - constantly worrying about where she is going to get money next, terrified of going into withdrawals - and she is far from being the only one. She does this five or six times a day.Įach hit costs her £35, she says, meaning she can spend up to £210 a day on drugs.
The 36-year-old 'snowballs', also known as 'speedballing', meaning she injects heroin together with crack cocaine. She tells WalesOnline: "I am looking forward to how it is going to make me feel - I feel butterflies in my stomach." Preparing her drugs in her small flat, Rhiannon says she feels excited. She cooks the mixture up with a lighter, which gets darker as it bubbles. Rhiannon places them in metal container addicts use to heat their drugs, known as a cooker, dissolving them with water and an acid. Rhiannon started using drugs as a teenager (Image: Jonathan Myers) With impressive focus, she carefully unwraps a tightly-packed white rock and another wrap with a fine brown powder - crack cocaine and heroin. It feels like a party with a terribly sad undertone.
She asks her companion Barrie to put some music on. Next she takes a few tiny wraps out of her handbag. Shoving some papers under a cluttered table and shifting a pile of clothes from the sofa to her bed, she invites us to take a seat as she manoeuvres her slight frame into an old, stained cream armchair opposite. The first thing Rhiannon does when we step into her small flat is apologise for the mess. You are about to find out, in her own words. So what is life really like for a 36-year-old woman whose only thought is how she will score her next hit? She has opened up about her experience, how her life revolves around taking the class A-drugs and how even she dislikes her lifestyle. Thousands of people are spending every last penny on feeding their heroin and crack cocaine addicts.Īmong them is Rhiannon, who spends a staggering £210 on her addiction every single day. Drug use is rife across the country with people from all walks of life.
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