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- In this episode we sat down with Cullan Mais, whose heroin addiction had a drastic impact on his life for many years. Cullan discusses the impact of drug addiction, the crimes he committed to fund his habit, and his time spent in prison. Now two years clean, Cullan also opens up on his path to recovery.
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Mae angen parchu iaith a diwylliant Cymru!
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I’ve Known Cullan for many years and I look back at the hight of his drug using days… if you ever bumped into me he’d ask me for a £pound or try selling me some stolen meat. You could see the heroine had a strong hold of him. Amazing to see he’s come round the other side and I can honestly say I’m proud to have been part of his recovery via the central club…. STAY CENTRAL people ❤️
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200 quid a day, everyday = £70,000.
That's a lot of pound coins 😝
@@ricknaughty1016 still do.
And coffee and cheese
I was addicted to heroin for over 5 years, suffered severe depression. Not until I tried psychedelic mushrooms. I will be 3 years clean in November. Psilocybin mushrooms saved me from years of depression, anxiety and addiction.
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How did you deal with the itchyness of opiods? I dont understand how people get passed it. For me it totally takes out the enjoyment of the buzz to the point were I won't do more then a couple of percs here and there.
I’ve had a heroin and crack habit and what saved me was when the gyms opened back up after lockdown I’ve been clean for two years this April my brother called me on April 10th 2021 and told me to join the gym and he was coming to pick me up Monday 12th morning and taking me
To the gym and I’ve not looked back since it’s a hard road and I’ve got massive respect for anybody going through this
Great job. I've never done it but I know it has to be hell.
Yes but if you get injured you'll need something else to fall back on, so don't expect it to be the ultimate cure. Find more hobbies
I’ve lost six friends to fentanyl overdoses since 2017 and honestly I probably shouldn’t be here myself. Watching a friends of my overdose and die in front of me was enough to get clean. Been clean since 2019 and it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. I cry sometimes about the changes I’ve made in life and how happy I feel. I never thought I would be happy.
Well done to you
Well done 👏
Keep at it. One day at a time
You made the right decision getting clean. Go out and enjoy your life as a normal human being!
Beautiful
What a turnaround.
What he’s managed to do, is quite remarkable. He should feel proud.
I work for local drug services and he’s right, Buvidal is a game changer but you must be ready to feel those painful emotions again which with the right support you can learn to manage. Massive respect to him and long live his recovery 🙌🏻
This is crucial information. It’s essential that people have support during the challenging period.
@@Trund27 absolutely! The possibilities are endless once someone takes that step 🙌🏻
Only because you yourself are an ex-addict!
Wats the recovery stats when people come of the buvidal injections?
@@machoboyrandyandsavage3439 CONGRATULATIONS!@ That is without question the gayest name I have ever seen 🤣 speaking of witch , I'm happy that callum got off the smack and I hope he can come out one day and get some real cardiff BBC 😁🌈👍
Well done Callum, I’ve had a 16 year battle with heroin. I’m almost 10 months clean and your story & upbringing is so relatable to me, thank you. Well done on 2 years, thank you for showing me it’s possible
You made your dealer rich
keep going. happy for you
Well done mate, youre doing so well!!!
I had a crack and heroine addiction for 16 yrs been of all for 15 yrs now life’s good wish I had done it earlier and not lost so many years to that drug I call the devil once it grips you it’s hard to let go
@@mrknowitall126 You made your parents poor.
What an honest likable guy. He even has a sense of humor
Why should he not have a sense of humor?😂😂
I'm on Buvidal, It's amazing.
I'm an addict myself. In recovery now for 2.5 years. I lost my best friend to heroin in 2010. I reckon I spent a similar amount on drugs myself. By any means necessary. Drugs get a grip of you and they don't let go until you either get help or you die. 🙏❤️
My condolences for your loss - that can't have been easy. Huge congrats on your recovery, though! 2.5yrs is fantastic and is testament to your strength, resolve, and determination. I'm sure your friend would be incredibly proud of you 💕
Here in British Columbia, Canada, they have just legalized small quantities of heroine. Do you feel it is the right thing to do?
@Georgina A thanks georgina. That means a lot. And yes I'm sure he would. My life is so much better now ❤️🙏
@Brian Duaqui yeah I've heard of that happen in other countries like Portugal and its worked there. So it can be a good thing. If people have a safe space to use to prevent overdoses.
@@chrisbee487 I'm so glad to hear that things are good - long may that continue! 👍💕
Ah dude... I'm literally so happy for this guy and every person that gets clean. Yes it's personal choice at the end of the day but nobody turns to drugs just 'because'. It takes so much strength to face that shame, guilt and and fear that you feel when in the grips of addiction. My love to everybody who is suffering from addiction.
Absolutely amazing progress mate. I can't imagine how hard it is both on heroin and coming off it. Well done for now helping your community 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you SO much for sharing your experiences so openly & honestly ❤️
Fair play to you being so open and honest, stay strong
Normal people don’t understand a drug addicts, they think they are scum but they are human beings who are trapped by these drugs, massive respect to ex users and anyone trying to help, your needed so much and probably never thanked for all your good work.
What I will never understand is how anybody can start using drugs knowing that it will destroy you. I have no sympathy for junkies, I do however have sympathy for those that suffer and die of illnesses that they never asked for.
It doesn't destroy most people. Most people don't develop addition.
Some people have a general character flaw that makes them susceptible to getting additited to anything addictive.
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@recherchedelaverite7675 no one asks for addiction mate. You try it you like it and before you know it your trapped. Don't cone slating shit you clearly know fuck all about
@@recherchedelaverite7675addiction is an illness
@@recherchedelaverite7675 Ever drank alcohol, knowing you can potentially become an alcoholic?
Good man. Great to hear you are helping others with all of your experience. Really wish you all the best Cullan with your onward journey.
I calculated that I spent, approximately, $1,000,000 over 4 decades on multiple drug addictions. I am unfortunately highly skilled and educated so money has always been available for me. Being a functional addict is kinda worse in many ways. But that's another discussion.
Borrow me a tenner
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My gosh I have total admiration for overcoming such a hopeless harsh journey to addiction. Hold on tight to the path you are on and have chosen now as you will always be an addict and you need to live your life on the alert and awareness system every day of your precious life. You are looking marvelous now and so healthy. My prayers ate with you.: )
Impressive how this young man has turned his life around.
Stay Central...
Gotta agree 100% about the stigma associated with drug use, certain drugs in particular, and the desperate need for that to change - it’s that stigma that makes it even more difficult for users to ask for and access help, and is almost as much to blame as the addictive substance itself for keeping people hooked.
Congrats on your sobriety, Cullan - A rare “life after heroin” success story 👏🏼💗 Good on ya for taking back control of your own future, and for helping others achieve their own success story too. Keep up the amazing work!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I have just lost my relationship after 5 years with an addict. I met him as he was recovering from sepsis and pneumonia!Thank you for doing this video, it has helped me to understand methadone better and why he is still where he is. I hope one day he is ready to be where you are.
Respect you bro thanks for opening up
major respect brother glad you're doing well
Only 5 minutes in but this is a very honest, insightful and brave interview which will quite probably save a lot of people or at least encourage them to quit. As a person who had a parent who was an addict (alcohol) I can sort of understand how the grip it can get on you can just dominate your life. It's devastating to watch and you feel powerless. All the best to you mate, you're doing a good thing sharing your story. Thank you.
respect for overcoming it and speak out about it too.
Cullan, you are a top lad! 😎 Getting your life back on track is hard and you should be applauded for it - but to use your experiences to help others shows your decency and character. I have no doubt that many lives will be saved because you are selfless and strong enough to do videos like this, and use your reputation to reach out to those who fall through the cracks and let them know that they haven't been forgotten.
I have no doubt that your family are very proud of you. I know I am 💕
Really great video. Wish him the best of luck and hope he can rescue as many people as he can. Saving lives...
Thank you for this,it's helped a lot for,I still struggle now but it's comforting to hear you're view and I really appreciate it...ore than you can imagine. So thank you X
Big respect to you Cullen well done for turning your life around your an inspiration,fair play to ya your absolutely smashing it with ur podcasts,top man god bless you bro
One man who's going to change a lot of life's. Incredible human 👊
Head over to the central club podcast to follow cullans journey x
Couldn't Agree Anymore with your Comment mate 💯👊🏻👌🏻🏴✌🏻
Agreed. It takes real guts to come on to a channel like this and talk about something so personal. Yet, by doing so, he's doing a phenomenal job of reaching out and educating people - and smashing stigmas along the way.
Top lad! 😎💕
Amazing , honest and inspirational well done mate
Good to see cullan sharing his story. A true role model, respect 👍
Thank you for sharing your story ❤️
Top lad Cullen he’s got a pod cast deserves more views
Wow, what a small world! I currently work in the old Kaleidoscope Project building near to where you are (I won't say which town but it's a few doors down from the police station, if you know it) and when I started I found a few KP fliers in the office about the death's that occurred on the premises due to overdoses. You might well have worked here before, for all I know.
The place is still being used to help people with difficult circumstances, just under a different company and not dealing with drugs. I can only imagine how unbelievably difficult yet fulfilling your work must be, but knowing these clients and their difficulties in life, I can't thank you enough for all of the important work you're doing.
Well done on getting yourself clean and making such an immense change in your life - keep up the amazing work and hey, if ever you drop by the old KP building for nostalgia's sake, there'll always be a cup of tea here for you. :)
Amazing story. Thank you for sharing. What an inspiration
Absolutely the best interview I have ever seen from a former user of Heroin, he was genuine, articulate, and very straight forward in his description of his life on Heroin and his life now clean, I just hope he knows that he will have to police himself, because if not he will be back even if he was clean for 5 years, because there are so many trigger points that can bring one back into that hell hole, be it something as small as a smell or something big that he thinks he can't cope with, I know, because I been there, was a coke addict and was clean for 3 years, and thought I would never be back, but one day I walked past a dry cleaning business and it had this oder coming from it that reminded me of the smell of cocain, and I couldn't shake the urge to do some coke, and I gave into that urge, a simple smell was all it took and I was off to the races with cocain again, and even worse than before, so I do hope he understands he will have to police himself always, because there might be some unknown trigger point he is unaware of
Well done Cillen! Your absolutely smashing life now mate
Hats off to you mate. Nothing beats experience so well said pal. well done to you 👍
Cullan does wonders about Cardiff helping the drug users or whoever needs it. Awesome interview, cullan mate. Massive turnaround! Staying central 👍🏼👍🏼
Been clean for four years now and I'm never going back to that life
Takes some real guts to jump on the stage like this..honestly this guys a top man and an inspiration for the youth and people stuck in everyday addictions and mental health..one love to this man cullen maise.❤️
Not for me brother im straight😀🤦
I hope the rest of your life is happy and healthy and you get any help you may need moving forward.
Please think of the bad days and hard times and your family and real friends before you consider drugs again. 🤍✨
What an incredible and inspirational person. Fair play to you Cullan mate
Legend Tom ❤⚽️
I’m a recovering alcoholic and I know that every addiction is different but they all have is control they control us from the minute we wake until the minute we pass out!! It’s so hard to get yourself out of addiction I’m on my own with no support but I will not go back to the old me every day I wake up and want to be a better person 💪❤️
Good luck
Good luck stay sober x
I would give an arm to swap my addiction with yours, in a heartbeat!
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Keep up the amazing work and stay central!
Proud of you Cullan brother 💙 recovery doesn't get any easier but it's so rewarding and worth all the dark days and I'm finally proud of myself also🙌🙌👏👏👏
Congratulations Cullan, I hope nothing but the best for u mate. Thx for sharing your story. 👍🇺🇲🗽🏴👍
I’m from a place very near Cardiff, and I just want to thank this man for using his story to help others in the community struggling ❤️ diolch yn fawr iawn
Wow wow wow what a guy. I was into alot of speed years ago and I had a couple of bad experiences luckily I got out but I see others I knocked about with go on harder stuff and are still on it now the strength to come out of a huge heroin addiction is incredible well done
This lad has inspired me and I hope ther is other addicts out there who watches this and say if he can do it so can I…this young man is going far..what a lovely lad your parents must b so proud of you..good luck to you and your gf hope you achieve in what you set out to do much love and respect from Burnley my man keep up the hardwork m8
Hats off to you my friend, my uncle lost his life recently after a lifetime of heroin abuse, always battling demons and blocking stuff from his past. It lost him his kids, his family, his world because he was never able to find peace in it. He wasn't a bad man deep down, but the vice grip it can have on a person can be unbreakable, so I have nothing but respect for this individual and his story.
Thanks for the honesty Cullan and to show your complete vulnerable self. Also, good to see another Cardiff lad on the right path 👍
Thanks Mike
Thanks for sharing much love from South Africa
What an amazing chat
Great work buddy. Best of luck to you.
Treatments aren't a "one size fits all" type of thing. Some people that didn't have success with MD like to knock it, but it saved my life. MD and subs have gotten _so_ many people I know clean.
God bless you Cullan and go forth and use this new life for good my friend 🙏🏼
Conveyed a positive message of overcoming addiction 🙌
Cheers Bill! Stay Central
Well done mate. Massive achievement.
The man, the myth, the legend that is Cullan Mais...proud to have him as a friend 👌💯🇮🇪💚🏴
There is a real determination and will to change others lives in so many recovering drug addicts like him..... They truly want to help those who are stuck where they used to be
Not once did he plug his Central Club podcast! This kid is as genuine as they come
This is a great series, and great work Cullan. I too am a recovering addict, crack was my d.o.c. and I just celebrated 8 years clean. I am glad they have more options than just subutex and methadone there, I hope it makes it way down to Canada. As I keep loosing more and more friends and acquaintances to due relapsing on and off street and doctors prescriptions. I wish you all the best with your recovery journey and same with many others who want to get clean. You can, if you change one small pattern of your day it can build a life with recovery. If you want to put as much work into getting clean as you did/do to get high your life can be amazing.
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He is a great interview and has useful insight. Congratulations to him on getting clean! And bringing awareness to a potential solution to this epidemic.
Thank you
Keep up the good work...life is for living 👌
Brave lad - well done mate. Stick with it.
Incredible life turnaround from Cullan and his podcast is a really good listen.
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Going to a detox right now then a rehab dont know anything rigth now this guy is awsome hope he makes others recover as well.. wish me luck i dont even know anymore....
Absolutely amazing video, thank you so so much! Seriously.. given me a bit of hope shall we say. I’m 21 years old on my 4th year of being a heroin/crack addict. It’s so hard to believe there’s an end to all this which won’t be death. Thank you so much for this mate and to you that put this together. Thank you.
god thats young chloe. literally stop tomorrow and save yourself. im on day 1 of my millionth detox from H and im a lot older. i read years ago some guy giving some younger person who had been on it a few years and was asking for advice.. the older guy said just stop now and never look back because your life will go so fast and before you know it its been years of addiction and misery and it gets harder. i remember them words about a year or so into using gear and i wish id have listened and id be fine now. do it mate! taper using subs if you have to but just stop now and live your life! i wish you the very best from the bottom of my heart
Was bang on it for 17 years, you can get through this.
@@daleadelic thank you so much seriously thank you..
@@chloeclans you can do it! please dont make the mistake you are so young you could do anything even if it doesnt feel that way right now sometimes. be a success! dont wait just start now and never look back chloe
Get on buvidol , bro , one reason ,the drugs you think you’re taking are no where near it ,it’s all just mixed up crap ,
This guy runs a successful podcast now called The Central Club, I've watched the podcast for a year or two now & I wouldn't ever think the guy was ever on drugs, fairplay to him for changing his life!
Incredible man 🙌
Good to see somebody talking about OCD as not something that means you just like to be a bit clean and tidy.
Mate, you should be really proud of yourself. Cracking effort
I really liked this guy. He seemed very real and genuine
love this lad x well done brother
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Legend, inspiration!!!
I got into smoking crack. I was using it for about 2 years. I was kind of still able to put priority bills before it. Eventually I got myself off it. I became so alone and got through it on my own. Not used it for about 3 years but I still get easily triggered into thinking about it but can distract myself fairly easily.
So knowing how fast it got a grip on me and the impact it has I can't imagine how difficult this level of addiction can have on people.
I think I just nipped it in the bud just in time.
This bloke looks so well. I can't imagine the struggle. Well done. You look better with a bit of belly. Stay strong x
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I've been talking about this with my drug worker. I've been clean since 2017 but because of lockdown and..life..I'm still on a methadone script. You have to be weaned so slowly. This could honestly speed up me being totally free from all of this.
Glad I watched this 🖤
No shame Jenn! Methadone is a step stone into recovery so you are doing just fine. Be kind to yourself and work the steps. ✌🏼
I'd seen so many of my "friends" try methadone and it never helped just made things worse. Subutex was the best decision I ever made.
You’ve done brilliant mate good luck for the future..
Thank you John
Clean for 5 weeks now. 👍
I gave it up for 5 years and went back to it after 20 years of use but I'm done with it now.
I've already put a stone of weight on in 5 weeks.
Mad...
Big up Stay Central 👊🏾🏴✊🏾
I'm currently and have been in the grips of this addiction for about 8 years. I have a full time in construction and a new born baby. I don't take drugs to get high. I take them to stop. Myself being sick... I never thought I'd be in this position when I was younger! Getting really fed up with it obviously but if I stop using, I get sick and would miss work then get laid off.. At least that's the excuse I'm still using to keep using..THIS GUY IS ME AND MY EXPERIENCE!
You should wean yourself down and push through and get off that crap. You can do it without missing work if you're disciplined.
@@carmisti have you done it yourself? Sure it can be done. Not by everyone tho. Which isn’t their fault. Discipline is partly genetic.
Thoughts with you mate. I no how strong addiction is. I'm an addict myself. I got clean in 2020. You have to do it when your ready. Do it for yourself and your lovely family as well mate 🙏❤️
@@carmisti this isn't helpful it's just negative pressure disguised as advice
Pathetic. That's your excuse? Your child should be excuse enough. Grow up
My OCD is like that it’s a real struggle to cope with it on a day to day basis it’s unexplainable to someone who does not have it so it makes u feel so alone and hopeless It’s hard
Good luck with your OCD! It’s tough man! Love ❤
I work the homeless community and with that comes alot of substance abusers and I cannot wait until buvidal is available where we are. Well done to this chap on turning it around for himself, wish him all the best for the future!
Congrats at getting sober mate, but it takes years to recover. Im 7 years off heroin and still have dreams about it sometimes and still get urges. Stay strong mate
I came from a good background and still got addiction it don’t matter where u come from it can still get u
Well done massive respect to you
#staycentral
Buvidal worked for me too, didn't have any withdrawal at all and came off a 7 year stint.. really amazing stuff.
Total respect my man. I know what it's like, I'm now 2 and a half years clean, but I was a prisoner to codeine for a long time (same family as heroin) people say I was lucky to not look for something stronger but I was doing 1400mg a day! Enough to overdose basically. I got clean on the buvidal too! It's amazing
Now got my own brand, house the lot, but wasn't without my battles.
Keep going bro, you're smashing it.
Thank you mate
Cullan is an inspirational, god bless bro 🙏
Big respect. Eloquent dude.
Well done Cullan stay strong stay safe and keep up the good work.
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Cannabis was a gateway drug for my brother too, thankfully he overcame those demons and is now experiencing a better life.
Even smoking just weed isn’t worth it
very ariculate, highly intelligent...well done Cullan!! ...da iawn!
So proud of you Cullen!
From the USA, seems like a great guy. Hope he stays on the straight and narrow.
This is the second time I’ve commented on this video and in 2 days I’m going on buvidal.. you have saved my life
I a sister to a addict I learn the brother he was 😢I wish I could have changed the moments that turned him to heroin I feel guilty for not being there for not understanding
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