More people in the UK are taking cocaine. A DJ and ex-addict in Liverpool is helping them stop.
"Cocaine use happens everywhere," says Lee. "In the pub, in a restaurant, at a wedding, at a funeral, at a football ground, at home. I'd be hard pushed to tell you where people don't use it."
"I just couldn't buy into this 'addiction is a disease, you're powerless, you have to surrender'. [They say] you have to take one day at a time, for the rest of your life, and every day you wake up you're an addict. I just thought - I don't want that future." The technique is not that well known in rehabilitation circles. Some experts contacted by the BBC had not heard of it; one charity - while not dismissing it - said it was not "evidence-based". "As I understand it there isn't an evidence base to support it - but that may be because no-one has researched it," said one professor from a different organisation.
Lee now helps around 50 people a week on social media, some of whom use the hashtag #recoveryposse on social media to share tips, experiences, and even relapses. He also organises "walk and talks" in Liverpool on Saturdays, and meetings on Wednesdays. "You've lost your girlfriend, your job, you've got no money, you owe £30,000. You can't come back from this, so you'll have to kill yourself. That was my mentality, and I went and did it."
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