Elora, Ontario

Community Box: Addictions Edition

Featured Creator, March 2020

The individual featured is a youth leader between the age of 14-18 overcoming addiction at Portage Ontario. For his privacy, his face will not appear in any photographs and his name has been substituted with Benjamin.

Benjamin’s Story

Throughout my addiction, I was a very two-faced person. There was high me and there was sober me.

I wasn’t worried about it much, but that’s because I wasn’t thinking at the same time. You’re just a different person when you’re addicted.

I’ve been working on producing and audio engineering. I would love to be famous for making music. I could put my emotions and creativity into it and it’s almost therapeutic to me. It’s in my hands and I can do whatever and make whatever.

For anyone living with addictions, honestly, a lot of what you’re thinking is just mind alterations of what’s going on. In my addiction, I couldn’t think of a life without drugs.

The Community Box:

Addictions Edition

ABOUT

Our fifth Community Box was created by two youth leaders (ages 14-18) overcoming addictions at Portage Ontario, a youth rehabilitation centre in Elora.

Portage Ontario

To learn more about Portage and what they do, please click here.

PROFIT SHARING

Instead of our proceeds going directly to the Creator, the profits will instead be shared with the Portage Community as part of a leadership fund to use on a fun activity!

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