Dr. Brian Pennie
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I had a job to fund the habit.
Everything was in the purpose of funding the habit.
But I created this narrative that I wasn't really a real addict.
I wasn't like on the streets begging, thinking that stereotypical was the only way to be an addict.
Rationalising, justifying, all of that kind of stuff.
And there's no way would I ever, like I sold coke, that was cool, but I'd never sell heroin.
I'd never inject heroin.
Then I'd be a real addict and a real drug dealer.
But I got there in the end.
Like I remember the first couple of times I tried to inject, I couldn't.
I had the needle.
I got someone else to do it for me and I couldn't.
So I ended up just there.
It's called skin popping.
So you just put it into your muscle.
But it nearly made me more anxious the whole process.
So it nearly saved me in the end that I couldn't stick the needle in me.
But interestingly enough, I consider myself recovered today.
I have no anxieties.
Not that I have no anxieties.