When My Mind Stopped Racing, My New Life Begun

The moment I realised my 15-year heroin addiction was over.

Brian Pennie, PhD
Mind Cafe
Published in
6 min readFeb 24, 2020

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It was my fourth week in detox, which sat on a little farm in the Irish countryside. When I woke up, the world felt different, wonderfully different. I was still in the depths of heroin withdrawal, but it was my first day clean in fifteen years, and a sense of possibility filled the…

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Brian Pennie, PhD
Mind Cafe

Change is possible. I write to show that | Recovered heroin addict turned doctor. www.brianpennie.com