{"id":2900,"date":"2022-10-26T08:47:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T08:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2022-11-02T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T21:16:19","slug":"i-spent-years-going-in-and-out-of-addiction-hairdressing-gave-me-other-options-now-im-helping-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=2900","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I spent years going in and out of addiction. Hairdressing gave me other options. Now I\u2019m helping others\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><span class=\"drop-cap fl header-font pr3 pb2\" style=\"color: #ffffff;\">E<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">ileen McHugh is CEO of Hair Together, which offers barbering and hairstyling training, and a wellness head start to young people. She lives in Dublin with her two daughters<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #ffffff;\">I was involved with drugs in the 1990s. I tried heroin for the first time when I was 15, and I did fifth and sixth year in school fully addicted. Long story short is that I was 29 when I finally got clean.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop-cap fl header-font pr3 pb2\" style=\"color: #ffffff;\">I<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> grew up in Ballymun and it\u2019s a great community, but it was also pretty bad growing up there then. I feel really sad that the young me slipped through so many cracks for so long. I used to get up in the morning and go over to the blocks to sell a batch of heroin. Then I\u2019d run back home, get into my uniform and go to school. I\u2019d be asleep in school. It makes me sad to think about it now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff914d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/life\/i-spent-years-going-in-and-out-of-addiction-hairdressing-gave-me-other-options-now-im-helping-others-42076567.html\">Read the full story here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}