Heroin addicts who were ‘skinny, dirty and close to death’ transform, getting clean
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A Scottish woman battled with an eight year heroin addiction – but has completely turned her life around since getting clean.
Holly Fitzwater, originally from Fife, found herself addicted to the class A drug at just 20-years-old.
At the time, she lost custody of her son and had a brief stint behind bars for shoplifting.
Holly told the Daily Star: “I first started taking heroin when I was around 20. I had my son with me, I was single and alone, and one day I met up with (a man) who introduced me to the drug.
“And unfortunately from then it was a horrible downward cycle.”
It wasn’t until Holly was “skinny, dirty and close to death” that she knew she needed to take action.
The former addict said: “I decided to get clean last Christmas, Jake and I were in a homeless flat in Fife, 6 Christmas presents, hardly any food at home, it was dingy and dark.
“I remember lying in bed turning round to him and saying we can’t do this another year, we will be dead before then, and that’s when we put in for a move to Perth, got the house within 27 days and started our journey.”
Holly explained: “The most difficult part was staying in Fife, when you continue to stay in your home area and everybody around you is either an addict or a drug dealer it’s impossible to get clean.
“You will bump into them in the street and they will offer you it, you can’t escape.”
“My mental health was so low at one point I thought daily about ending it all, it genuinely felt like dying was easier than getting clean and it’s horrible that addiction makes you feel like that.
“We looked dirty, unfed, we looked so ill , and we would not see that if we looked in the mirror and I would think we looked great then.”
The recovering addicts have had a dramatic transformation – and now look completely unrecognisable after getting clean.
