It was March 11, 2018, a week after my ex-boyfriend was incarcerated, I was scared of not having enough drugs to get a high and seeing as he protected me, I felt alone and in danger.<\/p>\n
I felt the withdrawal symptoms setting in and didn\u2019t have any drugs. I reached out to someone that I knew that also uses<\/em> to help cope with my symptoms. I felt alone and panicked. I had already pushed away my closest friends and family. I didn\u2019t want anyone to see me at rock bottom. Alone and scared, I injected myself with a large dose of benzodiazepines and went to see my \u201cfriends\u201d that were always a bad influence on me. As soon as they noticed I was losing my balance and vomiting, they abandoned me in the street. That afternoon, I had a heart attack. The only thing I\u2019m able to remember is awaking to seeing my bruised chest, at the time I didn\u2019t know that it was the result of having received defibrillation.<\/p>\n The week after, I stopped shooting up, but I continued to run away and get high. As soon as the police found me, they took me to the hospital. This is when I experienced my first detox, one of the most difficult experiences in my life. But it was at that moment that I was able to connect with my senses. I became aware of my body, which I had unconsciously forgotten a long time ago.<\/p>\n I realized that I needed help. Considering that I was still alive and I felt support and love from my family, I asked to go to Portage<\/a>. My conscience had returned.<\/p>\n April 3, 2018, less than a month after my overdose, Portage<\/a> welcomed me in. I left at the end of the month of September with new values, competencies and the tools I needed. What I\u2019ve learned after having been through all that is, there is never failure, only lessons to be had.<\/p>\n Angie, a resident of Portage Sainte-Malachie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was March 11, 2018, a week after my ex-boyfriend was incarcerated, I was scared of not having enough drugs to get a high and seeing as he protected me, I felt alone and in danger. I felt the withdrawal symptoms setting in and didn\u2019t have any drugs. I reached out to someone that I… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[153,364],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-21123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-testimonial","tag-adolescents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44480,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21123\/revisions\/44480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}