{"id":30061,"date":"2017-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/greg-fleet-was-a-heroin-addict-for-25-yrs-but-he-says-this-is-worse\/"},"modified":"2017-02-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T00:00:00","slug":"greg-fleet-was-a-heroin-addict-for-25-yrs-but-he-says-this-is-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/greg-fleet-was-a-heroin-addict-for-25-yrs-but-he-says-this-is-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Fleet was a heroin addict for 25 yrs, but he says this is worse\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Actor and comedian Greg Fleet is a recovering heroin addict &#8212; but he told Jade Robran the current ice epidemic is the worst thing he\u2019s seen.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s crazy,\u201d Fleety told Jade on FIVEAA. \u201cI, in the last year or so of my addiction, took ice quite a few times, so I know what it\u2019s like, but it gets hold of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a much more dangerous drug, much more, because it makes you crazy very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/308160474&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you did it every day within a week you\u2019d start being delusional, and then after two weeks you\u2019d start being paranoid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a while it\u2019s like everyone\u2019s filming me, there are people hiding in the house &#8212; crazy, crazy things. I\u2019ve known people who have torn their houses apart looking for microphones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople on ice are unpredictable and some are incredible violent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Fleety\u2019s days of hard drugs are behind him now\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see people on it, it actually pushes me further away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not trying, I\u2019m not fighting, I\u2019m not struggling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was probably tempting for about a week, and it\u2019s been a couple of years now. It seems like someone else\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Catch Greg Fleet in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidefringe.com.au\/fringetix\/signifying-nothing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Fringe show Signifying Nothing<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/xenophon-hits-back-after-interstate-pot-shot\"><strong>OUCH! SYDNEY JUST TOOK A GIANT POT SHOT AT ADELAIDE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/sportsday-sa\/crows-drop-a-huge-hint-about-their-new-midfield-plan\"><strong>ADELAIDE CROWS DROP A HUGE HINT ABOUT THEIR NEW MIDFIELD PLAN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and comedian Greg Fleet is a recovering heroin addict &#8212; but he told Jade Robran the current ice epidemic is the worst thing he\u2019s seen. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy,\u201d Fleety told Jade on FIVEAA. \u201cI, in the last year or so of my addiction, took ice quite a few times, so I know what it\u2019s like, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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