Hi my names Belinda Black, I am 24 years old and I am addicted to heroin and cocaine. I’ve been addicted to these substances for the past nine years however I am on the road to recovery and have been clean for 3 months. It all started when I was 15, my father passed away, he was the only family I had left. After he was gone, there was no one left who truly cared about me. I was brought to foster care. It was terrible I was abused every single day by the workers, they said I was useless, that nobody could ever love me or care about. I fell into a state of depression. That was when I met him, Tony. For the first time somebody would talk to me and I could talk to him about all my woes. That’s when he offered me cocaine; he said it would help me overcome my troubles. I was young and stupid, I didn’t know any better and I was insecure. For some time it helped ease the pain of losing my Dad, but soon enough the drugs effect on me weakened, to a point in which it started making me feel even worse. But I couldn’t stop, I was addicted. Tony offered me heroine and said it was stronger and had a better effect, so I started heroin soon afterwards. The drugs were expensive and I couldn’t afford them with normal means, so resorted to theft and prostitution. 3 years later and I had become a wreck. No job, no food and I was homeless and just as I thought my life couldn’t get any worse, I Became Pregnant. 9 months later and I gave birth to my child, it was a boy and he was slightly autistic but I still loved him very much. I asked the doctors what caused him to be autistic however I already knew the answer, it was the drugs. I told the doctors about the drugs and they offered me free health care and rehabilitation. Two years later and I am now drug free with a healthy two year old boy. I think that what project prevention is doing is disgusting and a strong breach of eugenics and moral ethics as its denying people like me the chance to reproduce. I know that if I was asked back when I was a drug addict, I would have said yes because I wanted the drugs and would do anything to get my hands on money in order to pay for them. Drug addicts are not in the right state of mind which is why asking them when they are insecure is going to lead to them taking the opportunity to sterilise themselves. I say NO! to project prevention.