Save

You have reached your maximum number of saved items.

Remove items from your saved list to add more.

A A A

Elvira Tsecoutanis was in the grip of a heroin addiction when she found out she was pregnant with her first child.

“I thought, ‘People like me don’t have babies,’” Tsecoutanis says. “I shouldn’t be a mum.”

Tsecoutanis is not a religious person, but she likens a heroin addiction to being possessed by the devil: an unstoppable, violent force that drags a person into hell against their will. She remembers crying on the way to her dealer’s house, desperate to stop using.

“No one will ever carry as much shame and judgment about ourselves as…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU