SHE’S A WINNER NOW –
March 20, 2025 – Tanya started drinking. It began a downward spiral of drug and alcohol addiction that took 15 years for her to escape. Now 45, Tanya, from Cambridge, says she has never been happier thanks to her own willpower, and help from a family support project funded by Comic Relief. She has been in recovery for seven years and has another young daughter.
She says the break up of her family was a trigger.
“I started drinking alone which I’d never done before, and it got worse from there,” she said.
“I was hanging on for dear life, trying to do the school runs, but I was failing miserably. My daughter went to live with my mum and I pretty much stayed away. I didn’t want to bring my chaos into her world,” said Tanya.
Things took a turn for the worse when Tanya started using crack and heroin. Her home was often full of fellow drinkers, smoking and injecting drugs.
