Self-rehabilitating man commits to kicking the habit
May Winston (29) is taking the “stay and home” route to kick out the nyaope in his system and will stop at nothing to get his life back together again.
A self-rehabilitating young Pretoria man has vowed to stay clean and change his life around.
May Winston (29) of the Boschkop informal settlement, has been taking the “stay and home” route to kick out the nyaope in his system.
Nyaope is a highly addictive street drug which is a mixture of low grade heroin, cannabis products, antiretroviral drugs and other materials added as cutting agents such as rat poison or cleaning agents.
“I used to cause all sorts of trouble in the nearby plots,” he said.
“Now I am ready to change.”
In self rehabilitating he stays indoors and avoids going to places that would get him tempted to do drugs again.
He has been in and out of police cells until three months ago, when he decided to stop his drug habit.
Winston and his friends used to steal anything they came across.
“It has been three months since I have started and so far I am coping,” he said.
May said he would stop at nothing to see his life come together again.
He said he has matric and am looking forward to doing carpentry again, a job he loved.
“I strongly regret the time wasted on drugs and I want to do better this time around,” he said.
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Police spokesperson Sergeant Yeroboam Mbatsane got Winston support from the Christian Revival church in Silverlakes, who donated food to the 29-year-old to give him strength while he kicks his habit.
Mbatsane said he personally vowed to assist Winston and help him get a second chance at life.
“That is on condition that he does not relapse,” Mbatsane said.
“His friends are serving sentences for different crimes that they committed while trying to feed their drug habit.
“When I decided to pay him a visit, he confirmed he decided to start afresh. He conceded having messed up his life and that of others.”
Mbatsane said the food parcels were the first step in providing support to May and that they would continue to monitor his progress and where there was a need for health professionals to intervene.
“We will encourage May and his friends to remain drugs-free as part of our crime prevention duties,” he said.
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