He overcame his addiction to alcohol when he is older than 18 years of age

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The consumption of alcohol by Maxyme Milhomme has even led straight to the hospital where he almost died at the age of 15. “The doctor told me that I would have really been able to die, but I began drinking again the next day. It is strong, the dependence,” says Maxyme.

Elisa Cloutier

Saturday, 30 December, 2017 22:32

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New year, new start. Words that will make sense for an 18 year old who has overcome his alcohol addiction through the rehabilitation centre for substance abuse The Portage, then he touched his first beer… at the age of eleven.

His descent into the underworld led by the youth center, where he has spent almost his entire teenage years because of his behavior problems. His journey has not been easy, as he has been expelled from her high school, has lost his job and his apartment, in addition to the support of his loved ones. Today, sober for nearly ten months, Maxyme Milhomme can boast of having overcome his addiction.

“The more time that happens, more of the positive happens. In the beginning it is hard because you do just pick up the evil that you did when you was using, ” said the young man with resilience. “At the end, just before entering therapy, I had disappointed everyone was that I was crooked all the time. It was made so strong, taller than me, I told myself that I’d just like to not wake me up this brush-there, ” he says.

Bullying

A victim of bullying at primary, Maxyme double its fifth year, and then it moves to a new school. “You treated me grease of Mcdonalds, or fat, in the pure state in the school yard, because of my weight problem “, he says. Arrived at his new school, he reverses the roles and becomes the bully. “I never wanted to relive this situation “, he explains.

This was the beginning of his years on the drift, which would indeed have been difficult. “This is where I started consuming at age 11, all alone in my room “, says he, stating that his parents were far from suspecting what was happening between the walls of his room.

At the beginning, its consumption was weekly. To satisfy his desires, he stole the bar from his parents. “I was looking for which had the highest rate of alcohol. I bouchais the nose to drink “. Quickly, his demons have become present in daily life. “I “calais” before going to school in the morning, over the lunch hour, I went flying in the store and I was going to drink in the toilet “, admits the one who used “easily” a dozen beers per day.

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At the end of the roll, it contacts itself The Portage last winter, to be received in the therapy. He has thus, on march 7, in the center of St. Malachi. It will be apparent that five and a half months later. “My father recently told me that he has the impression of having found his 10 year old child,” says the one who is back on the school bench, in special education, with the goal of becoming involved… at the Portage. “It’s become my second family,” he concludes.