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    BRUTAL TRUTH

    Sep 23, 2022 3 minutes
    BY JANE VORSTER

    HER addiction took her to rock bottom. In her memoir Smacked, Melinda Ferguson gave a harrowing account of how her craving for heroin and crack cocaine cost her almost everything as she landed up destitute on the streets of Hillbrow, Johannesburg.

    This was followed by two sequels, Hooked and Crashed, which told how the mother of two managed to put her life together again and stay sober.

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