A minister has opened up about her 18-year drug addiction struggle which saw her having to turn to sex work.
Trudy Makepeace - who now works as a minister at E5, a church on Jamaica Street in Stokes Croft - first started using drugs at the age of 14, shortly after going into care. She was using amphetamines at first before moving to heroin.
"I was hanging around the wrong crowd looking for acceptance and belonging, I was looking for a place to belong," Trudy added. "They were using things like acid, cannabis or amphetamines.
