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"On the road to a positive future"

About: Telford STaRS

(as a service user),

So three months  and three screenings after smoking a£1,000 pound a month worth of cannabis plus fags and drinking social . 

I knew I needed to make the change after suffering from 9 seizures that came out of the blue in my early thirties. 

I ended up in hospital  after having one seizure, smashing my face off a brick wall, having to be put into an induced coma and needed dialysis after having a bleed on the brain and coming down with acute kidney failure . Being told it was cause I was smoking really silly amount of cannabis. My workers, Jake and Steve, I found them both really to get on well with having lots of interesting conversations, very supportive with my journey 

I hundred percent calm collective and now I’m not wasting the amount of money of £1000 a month it’s now going on the right thing like my debts been able to focus on those sort of things like keeping my accommodation, now having contact with my children, they’ve both been really supportive towards me very very supportive as well as me actually engaging because if I were still smoking, I wouldn’t engage. I wouldn’t want to go to the appointments, but the fact that it’s also a court order because in truth if I hadn’t started doing this, I wouldn’t be where I am now and that’s on the road to a positive future and all I can say is thanks to Steve and thanks to Jake. They’ve kept me pointed in the right direction. 

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Response from Christopher Hirst, Service Manager, Telford Stars, Inclusion last month
Christopher Hirst
Service Manager, Telford Stars,
Inclusion
Submitted on 07/04/2025 at 13:06
Published on Care Opinion at 13:06


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Good afternoon sigmacg55,

Thank you for your feedback about the support you have received from our service.

I am pleased to read the positive journey you have taken and I would like to wish you a positive future.

I will share this feedback with the team.

Many Thanks

Chris Hirst

Telford STaRS

Service Manager

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