Melbourne man uses painting to forge path back from addiction

 At the peak of his addiction, Chris Ellis was smoking ice and then topping the high with anything he could get his hands on — cocaine, ecstasy, GHB, even smoking heroin.   

He knew he was an addict and was desperate for help. Then he found solace in an unlikely place — sitting in his lounge room with a paintbrush in one hand and a blank canvas in the other. 

His powerful acrylic self-portrait — a showcase of the emotions he was grappling with as a drug addict — has now become a defining marker on his path to recovery. 

Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-25/melbourne-man-uses-art-to-forge-path-out-of-addiction/101370346



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