“I started smoking cannabis, taking amphetamines and ecstasy when I was 13-years-old”, Tina admits. Living in a children’s home, she says it was really easy to get hold of’ as a youngster with no stability in her life.
Over the course of more than two decades of addiction, she watched as her friends died from overdoses around her. Now, she helps others kick their habits.
The number of drug deaths in Greater Manchester reached a record 368 in 2021, revealed by new statistics published in August. That figure is the highest since records began almost 30 years ago, having risen year-on-year during the pandemic.
