Finding My Lost Life: The Fall to Addiction & Rise to Recovery

My name is Jeremy Cross, born in Langley (May 1993). I battled addiction for 7 years on the streets of Vancouver, my DOC was fentanyl and crystal. I was in and out of the legal system, I became something and someone I didn't know. When unimaginable things happened to me, I would always think, I'm going to write about this some day if I ever get out of this rabbit hole. And here we are now, sober and thriving. I want my story to inspire others, bring awareness and understanding to the addiction community and help educate the "normies" really get what we go through and how we sometimes get there and why it's so difficult to just "get out". I am now a certified peer support worker, I want to prevent others from going through what I went through, because many don't make it out alive.