Former drug abuser turned anti-drug advocate shares his story of how a strong parent-child relationship can prevent drug addiction, despite a tumultuous upbringing. Read more at straitstimes.com.
By the age of 13, Nicholas Tan had become a heroin addict, consuming as many as six straws of the drug in one day.
Since 2022, Architects of Life has collaborated with the National Council Against Drug Abuse on"What's Your Fix?" – a two-year campaign aimed at raising awareness of the realities of drug use and igniting societal discussions about drug abuse. As he found it harder to buy drugs, he decided to go cold turkey when he was 15. By then, his mother, who had noticed that he was getting skinnier, was aware of his addiction. She tried her best to help him by locking him indoors, but her efforts were in vain.
One day, when he was 18, he was mixing drugs in his home toilet when he fell unconscious from an overdose. His mother slapped his face over and over to wake him up because he was barely breathing. To keep his mind off drugs, he worked two to three jobs for a few years to tire himself out."Get up at 5 am, work out, work, get home at midnight, and repeat," he says.
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