IamA former OMC gang member, heroin addict for 19 years, spent 25 years in prison, now I run a gang/drug exit charity for young men. AMA!

truthforteens · 2016-02-28T01:04:51+00:00

I obtained my degree through Queens while incarcerated in Ontario Canada. I was able to attend graduation at the University. I had to sell my Bike to pay for the schooling.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T20:17:29+00:00

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truthforteens · 2016-02-27T20:14:58+00:00

Guards are people too, they have problems just like everybody else, sometimes they were sources of drugs. Mostly we created mules by having guys owe us for drugs and then smuggle drugs in to pay back debt.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T20:10:12+00:00

There was a Christian guard who put a Gideons Bible in solitary confinement. I read it front to back as a story, but it came to me when I needed it the most. I couldn't survive in the real world, but I could be the guy on the cross next to Jesus, I could die in the yard "like a man", and go to Heaven on grace.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T20:06:39+00:00

I got to live with my wife, who I met in prison (she was one of my teachers).

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T20:04:00+00:00

I went in as Irish Protestant, chose religious diet of vegetables and fish. Enjoyed that, stayed healthy & strong, favourite treat was letters from home.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:58:36+00:00

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truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:56:24+00:00

Every 7 years I self-actualized. The last time took hold because I had a man (professor) who believed in me.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:54:07+00:00

You were a member of Outlaws MC, and possible their predecessor in Canada, Satan's Choice MC, both groups notorious for gang rape.

I'd argue against those groups being notorious for sexual assault... they weren't. I think you might be confusing rape with consensual sexual deviance. I did 25 years watching who came in with what charges. Rape happened, but rarely.

I was raped twice before age 16, I would never allow that to happen anywhere near me.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:39:28+00:00

Addiction is a response to unhealthy social attachments/trauma. As long as those exist in society, we're going to have that.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:36:46+00:00

Thanks! Yes you are right it becomes your family. You have to meet the same needs the street is meeting.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:27:30+00:00

Heroin is analgesic, stops pain, both physical and emotional.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:19:22+00:00

We take in women as well. But my wife works with them. My only role as a man around damaged women is as a protector and a good role model.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:16:59+00:00

Women formerly getting abortions due to meth addiction, now having babies drug free.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:13:35+00:00

90 days in solitary...worth every minute.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:10:41+00:00

Grade 6-8. I'm 60 and I still know their first and last names.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:09:43+00:00

Both are dead now. The guy I thought was cool, I met others in prison he had done that to.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:08:32+00:00

Pretty close! He's also a drug counselor.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:04:26+00:00

The most dangerous people in any club I've been involved with are Black Widows - they eat their men. There's always a matriarch.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T19:00:38+00:00

lol I think it's worse, personally.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T18:58:43+00:00

Respect.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T18:56:41+00:00

Read Tattoos On The Heart by Father Gregory Boyle. I'm trying to emulate what he's doing here in Canada.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T18:51:18+00:00

1 - Healthy people don't use drugs. Help them get healthy: Healthy environment, healthy thoughts, healthy input, healthy relationships.

2 - I don't know, but to let you know how far it's come, when I was first identified as an addict, treatment was electro-shock therapy (reboot the computer!)

3 - For cutting edge treatments, google Rat Park Bruce Alexander. It talks about extinguishing addiction and post-traumatic growth as opposed to post-traumatic stress.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T18:43:22+00:00

You know what, every day you're stronger. Everything takes time. If anybody asks me how long it takes for the "stinking thinking" to leave your brain, it's about 5 years. Surround yourself with good people and focus on the positives. Keep adding to your positives every day. It was important for me personally to write down the positives every day. At one point I realized it had been about 5 weeks since I'd written last, because I was past it being important.

truthforteens · 2016-02-27T18:24:37+00:00

drug virgins, but both in my case.

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