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Article about Neil Smitham

October 09, 2007

Read the article about Neil here

Neil has asked us if he could post a response to this article on our website which we agreed to.
The Following is from Neil:
I Neil Smitham, 51 would like to clarify the areas I thought I was misrepresented, in
Response to the article in the Herald Sun dated the 21 September 2007 written by Mary Bulling, subtitled “Security a key to Survival”

The general perspective of the article was that of a herion addict who had lived in a car for sometime. I was quite clear to Mary that I had only lived in my car for three days and nights after being evicted from ‘Hollywood Hotel’ a boarding house in St Kilda.

My main drug problem from which I developed schizophrenia which I still suffer from to this day was my dependence on marijuana. Intravenous drugs were only a small part of my life where the article implied that this was something that I struggled with for some time.

The reason I come to Credo Café is motivated by a need to assist those who have found themselves in the same situations I have experienced. The peace from my faith and the security at my present rooming house of 17 years empowers me to continue living live to the full.

Neil as we know him...looking a lot happier than his photo in the paper

Posted by brent at October 9, 2007 10:27 AM