Richard Feidler

What I didn't hear them say was, but you can't take drugs.

Yeah, they didn't say that.

They just said you can't take alcohol.

So I thought, fine, but...

That year that I was staying at home, I was straight.

I was so sick I couldn't do anything.

My parents didn't want me there.

They never really wanted me there.

But I had nowhere else to go.

So I slowly recovered enough to look for work.

But I was straight in that time.

I wasn't drinking or smoking cigarettes, but that's it.

And then I started looking for work and I found this job with this, they were called NACRO, which was looking after young kids out of jail or with drug and alcohol problems, like a residential care network.

Yeah, exactly.

Government funded.

I mean, I was a compassionate person if I'd thought about it, but I just could see that I wanted to help people, even though I was hopelessly not looking after myself.

Yeah.

So, you know, I told them about my travels and I don't know, I just had an interview and they gave me this job as a residential care worker looking after all these kids.

But what I was to find was Patrick, my team leader, and it was actually a drug, like he was using it to distribute drugs and I became one of his drug dealers.

And out came the cocaine, out came the heroin, out came... This is your boss?