chip somers a former heroin addict who now runs a clinic helping drug abusers kick the habit welcome it's great to have you on our show today thank you so obviously i want to start with your personal story how did drug addiction get you. it got me when i was about seventeen and just starting out of lessons and i started coming across drugs in london and the thing that attracted me most of all was that they made me feel very good i think. people often forget that drugs do make you feel very good i mean if that's the argument that most of the drug users use that makes you feel so good that you know what to do or think about anything else but that's why it's so hard to forget about it and and the kick it out but what happened that made you change your life i think i had a very difficult childhood i think i had. was sexually abused and i had various things that were problematic so by the time i was seventeen i was not really a very. kind of complete individual and i thought drugs gave me that extra dimension that allowed me to kind of communicate with the world and how long how long did

chip somers is our guest today. the war on drugs has raged for decades but addiction is still a horrifying reality. are drug users criminals just waiting to be locked away or rather the people who need help in getting their real this is abstinence a cure for addiction and can one ever be cured completely. chip somers a former heroin addict who now runs a clinic helping drug abusers skip the habit welcome it's great to have you on our show today thank you so obviously i want to start with your personal story how did drug addiction get you it got me when i was about seventeen and just starting over lessons and i started coming across drugs in london and the thing that attracted me most of all was that they made me feel very good i think people often forget that drugs do make you feel very good i mean if that's the argument that most of the drug users use that makes you feel so good that you know what to do or think about anything else but that's why it's so hard to forget about it and and the kick it out but what happ

and we're back with chip somers a former drug addict turned rehab director great to have you back in the second part of our program so any other clinic when you help people. finish with drugs which drug do you deal with the most which is the hardest to overcome i think probably alcohol because it's so readily available in the public you can get it anywhere and it's legal and it doesn't cause any problems in terms of purchasing and getting it so i think that's probably the most difficult to deal with on a long term basis some of the more drugs that have come along like ketamine are very problematic because of the physical consequences of using drugs like that especially with the damage it does to the blood so there's some long term medical problems with that i think the opiate ones present a problem in that it's a very much a huge lifestyle choice and getting people to change from that lifestyle to a sort of normal lifestyle is really quite difficult so the drug called crocodile that's every everyone's been talking about at least in this part of the world lately it's a flesh eating dr

chip somers a former heroin addict who now runs a clinic helping drug abusers kick the habit welcome it's great to have you on our show today thank you so obviously i want to start with your personal story how did drug addiction get you. it got me when i was about seventeen and just starting out lessons and i started coming across drugs in london and the thing that attracted me most of all was that they made me feel very good i think. people often forget that drugs do make you feel very good i mean it that's the argument that most of the drug users use that it makes you feel so good that you know what to do or think about anything else but that's why it's so hard to forget about it and and kick it out but what happened that made you change your life i think i had a very difficult childhood i think i had. was sexually abused and i had various things that were problematic so by the time i was seventeen i was not really a very. kind of complete individual and i thought drugs gave me that extra dimension that allowed me to kind of communicate with the world and how long how long did it l

chip somers a former heroin addict who now runs a clinic helping drug abusers kick the habit welcome it's great to have you on our show today thank you so obviously i want to start with your personal story how did drug addiction get you it got me when i was about seventeen. just starting out of lessons and i started coming across drugs in london and the thing that attracted me most of all was that they made me feel very good i think. people often forget that drugs do make you feel very good i made it that's the argument that most of the drug users use that makes you feel so good that you know what to do or think about anything else but that's why it's so hard to forget about it and the kick it off but what happened that made you change your life.

chip somers a former heroin addict who now runs a clinic helping drug abusers kick the habit welcomeit's great to have you on our show today thank you so obviously i want to start with your personal story how did drug addiction get you it got me when i was about seventeen. just starting over lessons and i started coming across drugs in london and the thing that attracted me most of all was that they made me feel very good i think. people often forget that drugs do make you feel very good i mean if that's the argument that most of the drug users use that makes you feel so good that you know what to do or think about anything else but that's why it's so hard to forget about it and and the kick it off but what happened that made you change your life i think i've had a very difficult childhood i think i had. sexually abused and i had various things that were problematic so by the time i was seventeen i was not really a very. kind of complete individual and my drugs gave me that extra dimension that allowed me to kind of communicate with the world and how long how long did it last to hold