Sheila (not her real name) was 11 when she smoked her first joint at an Irish college summer camp. By 14 she was smoking joints every day, drinking at weekends and taking speed and ecstasy.
Even in the small town in which she grew up, Sheila says drugs were easy to come by. "We were all doing them. It was acceptable in the crowd I hung out with."
Her parents ran a shop and had high hopes for their eldest daughter. "I got 300 points in the Leaving Cert without even trying and got a place on a business course in an institute of technology," she says, "but once I got to college, my drug habit went wild.
Source: Irish Independent, 30/04/2011
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