A FORMER Goldthorpe woman who is turning her life around after years of drug addiction has spoken out to praise the local services supporting her in her recovery.
Nicola Pearson, 40, who lived at Gosling Gate Road, was jailed for three years after robbing a female debt collector of more than £2,000 in 2013, but it now taking part in Aspire Drug and Alcohol Service’s Structured Day Programme at New Beginnings in Balby, Doncaster.
She says she wants to demonstrate to others in a similar situation that recovery is possible.
“Three years ago I hit rock bottom because of my addiction and the bad place I was in mentally and physically, I received a lengthy prison sentence and was branded as ‘scum’,” she said.
“People said about me ‘once a junkie, always a junkie’, but thanks to the amazing support I’ve received and my own determination to turn my life around, I’m able to hold my head up high today and prove it really is possible to change.”
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