One day when 19-year-old Gabriel feels bad, he asks a friend for “a little pick-me-up”. The latter offers him a rail of cocaine. This will be the first of a long line. “At the beginning, I had a feeling of power, of well-being, the impression that everything was going well in my life”, remembers the young man. But very quickly, addiction sets in and anxiety and paranoia take over.
After a few years, Gabriel almost only sees people who use drugs. “I was completely disconnected from what I was doing. One evening “when things went too far”, Gabriel clicked. He decides to stop. To take cocaine but also to drink alcohol. He deletes his drug dealer contacts, moves away from his former associates and tries to understand what pushed him to consume.
Gabriel hasn’t touched a gram of coke for four years. “Today, I have projects, a life that I care about. All this prevents me from falling back into it. The fact that I also understood where these anxieties came from helps me to be much more aware of the situation. From now on, the thirty-year-old wishes to testify in order to help dependent people. He has just created a podcast on addiction.