I lost everything because of heroin, trying to save my daughter’s life.

Sam died on January 3.

Drug Dealer may have been put in prison but there are other dealers out there who will replace them. It is a problem that is not going to go away and there is not enough help or resources out there to put an end to it.

The police will do a dawn crash when they hear about dealers but as soon as they take their eye off the ball, the dealing starts up again.

Drug dealers do not think about the terrible pain they cause to people when they give addicts heroin.

I have to try to forgive, otherwise it would destroy me even further. I am suffering constantly after losing my daughter.

It has totally destroyed my life but nothing is going to bring Sam back.

The thing that I am most angry about is that when Sam was 17, before she ever got into heavy drugs, I tried to get her help and got her into rehab for alcoholics in Bournemouth.

But the centre was also taking in men who had come out of prison, and were former heroin addicts, as well as young girls.

Sam fell in with a heroin addict.

I went looking for help when she was a kid because I was at my wit’s end and it was in our pursuit to get her off that she ended up getting worse.

My whole life has been blighted. I left the country to help Sam and now I have ended up with nothing but I would do it all again if it meant I could have my daughter back.

Revenge means nothing to me. There is just no help. The kids who are Sam’s age, that’s when they start. It is then they need the help.

I took all my money out of my house throughout the years.

Then I remortgaged, moved to Cyprus and took her with me.

All this had to be funded.

I contacted lots of people about what happened to Sam in treatment but they are not really interested.

Heroin was like a dirty word to me until Sam got into it – then it was totally different. All heroin addicts have a family and everyone is devastated through their loss. They are just ordinary people who got involved with a horrible drug.

Sam went to work. She was a lovely person, she was bubbly and she sure as hell didn’t want to die.

I find it horrendous. I wake up in the morning and still cannot believe she’s gone.

I have got nine grandchildren and it is pretty scary to think they could get involved with drugs. I never thought Sam would.

She hated heroin. She said it was so hard to stay off it. It is a devil’s drug, the way it affects the body and the brain.

Some people are broad-minded when they find out you’re the mother of a heroin addict but there is still a stigma attached to it and the pain of what has happened will never go away.

Everybody has got to take responsibility because everything that contributes to getting rid of the drugs problem is making the streets safer.

People turn their back and think it won’t happen to them.

It is a bit like drink driving – when they brought in the breathalyser people started to take notice and it cut down the amount of drivers who were drinking and then getting behind the wheel.

People have just got to be more aware when it comes to drugs.

But, I made one big mistake by not putting her in one of the good drug rehab center like SouthCoast Recovery in CA.