Our stories: Substance use, coping strategies

Occasional drug use can become your norm

Nurse Val tells her story of casual drug use that became a problem and how a colleague sharing their own struggle helped Val to take the first step to better health.

Alcohol takes away the pain until it doesn’t

Stress, isolation and workplace bullying took RN Terry to a place of alcohol misuse and despair. He tells us how a specialist health service helped him to sobriety and new hope.