A recovered drug addict who fought hard to get clean claims he is facing a relapse if he is put into a council home frequented by drug users.
Zamal Ali, 46, lived with hard drugs for 21 years but was able to kick the habit and has been clean of both crack cocaine and heroin for two and a half years.
After Mr Ali’s mother died last year he lost his home and has been bidding on council properties ever since. But he claims that pressure is being put on him to take a room in a house where habitual drug users live and he fears it could spark a relapse, Gloucestershire Live reports.
Mr Ali, from Cheltenham, said: “Last November I was sleeping in a car and recently I have [been] put in a homeless shelter in Gloucester which is very good and
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