A Slave to Addiction

The Northern Echo (September 28, 2009)

Author: David Roberts

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For half his life, Owen Trebbell has been enslaved by heroin. As he begins a four-year prison sentence for burgling a disabled man, David Roberts talks to his father - the man who reported him to police - about life with a drug addict

MITCHELL TREBBELL stares down into his mug of tea and asks: "What sort of a world do we live in when people do that to each other?"

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A Slave to Addiction

It is a question often posed by people shocked at the crimes and atrocities described in vivid detail in newpaper and television reports every day.

Yet for Mr Trebbell, it is much worse - for he questions...

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