Real Lives Untold: Episode 7 - Karl Ducque
Recovery and Re-education
Real Lives Untold · Sarah Trina
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Show Notes
In Episode 7 we are joined by Karl Ducque who works as a team leader with the TRY project (Targeted Response with Youth) in Dublin.
Karl grew up in the flats in Dublin's inner city and talks about feeling like an outsider in school and turning to drugs at a very young age.
By the age of 15 he was using heroin and started selling drugs and getting involved in crime because of debt.
"Acting the gangster basically, wanting to make a name for yourself."
He speaks about his struggles with addiction
"What addiction does to you is it cuts everything off slow, it cuts your friends off, your family off, it burns all your bridges basically and I went through years of that I suppose....at the end your little spirit is dead....."
He speaks to Sarah and Trina about his his views on methadone and his resentment at being prescribed it at a young age.
He also talks about his inspiring recovery journey, his determination through the work he does now to deter young people from getting involved in criminality and steer them away from the path he went down.
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