Adversity to Advantage
Adversity to Advantage
Petra Velzeboer
16: From Drug Addiction to Counselling Addicts with Gary Aldridge
47 minutes Posted Jan 22, 2018 at 7:42 am.
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'By the time I took my GCSEs I was so addicted to drugs that there was no chance I would get any grades' 
Ten years of drug use including stints in prison, homelessness and stuck in a cycle of the criminal justice system, Gary attended his first rehab in prison at 21.   On probation at 27 he met a man who acted as a mentor and had been 6 years clean and sober.  Wishing his whole life that he would have received mentoring instead of punitive punishment, Gary finally got the mentoring and guidance he'd been searching for through a recovering addict who volunteered to work with him.