All I needed was a chance': The former 'speed' addict who used lockdown to turn her life around

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For the latest news from in and around Oldham sign up to the MyOldham newsletter here A former addict from Oldham has described how she is seizing a second chance after losing three years of her life to 'speed'.

Jessica Roberts' life fell apart after she began injecting amphetamines in her teens. But now, at 21, she is being helped to find her first-ever job.

She's been on benefits for nearly five years, since leaving school at the of 16, and finding work will be a big step in securing the stable lifestyle she carved out for herself on lockdown, after years of moving between different addresses. "I left home and went into a foster home in Middleton, then a youth hostel back in Oldham before I was evicted from there - I was at each for a