Charlotte Ashton is spending each month of her gap year with a different UK charity. This month, she joins a class of former drug users seeking a path into employment
Saturday March 4, 2006
The Guardian
What has had the most influence in shaping the person you are today? Family, friends, school, the media or work? Discussions like this have kicked off my Monday mornings for the past month. My fellow debaters have been a group of recovered or recovering drug addicts and alcoholics.
I agreed with most of them that family is the most influential, but my suggestion that a child's mother is surely the best person to care for it was quickly rejected. 'Not if she's a drug-taking prostitute,' one of the students retaliated."
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