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    Light at the end of addiction ‘WE’VE BEEN TO HELL AND BACK’

    Apr 17, 2022 5 minutes
    Fleur Guthrie

    At her lowest point during an arduous battle with drug addiction, Emily Doré didn’t care if she woke up from an overdose or not. Death would have been a welcome relief.

    By the age of 26, the former beauty therapist was smoking so much crystal methamphetamine that her weight had dropped to just 40kg. She shook constantly and had infections in her nail beds.

    ‘People don’t understand addiction and the control it has over someone’

    “I was a mess. I was bleeding daily from every orifice of my body and had distanced myself from all friends and family. And like all good New Zealand criminals, I escaped to Australia,” says 39-year-old Emily with a wry smile.

    “I went to Sydney and got my physical health back, but it took a while to get my

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