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Former cocaine addict shares his recovery story

Nicholson believes it was his eventual call to charity group Silkworth, the only residential rehabilitation treatment centre in the Channel Islands, which saved him after he underwent 11 weeks of treatment there.

He hailed the experience as the best thing he had ever done and said he has now been clean and sober for four months for the first time in nearly 20 years.

He said: “When I was in active addiction, I became a liar, a manipulator, a user, everything I’m not.

“I found the real me again in there and it was just an amazing experience. It was the best thing I ever did.”

Nicholson said he had shared his story because “if I could save just one life, then all of this would have been worth it, the missing piece in my jigsaw”.

Jersey’s authorities said there had been 34 confiscations of cocaine in Jersey last year, compared to 19 in 2023.

They said 1.3kg (46oz) of cocaine had been seized in 2023 which had a street value of £267,400, compared to 10.5kg (370oz) seized last year, which had a street value of more than £2m.

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