NA Member Tony Carter has been in and out of jail for years and battling a heroin addiction. He is now in N.H. State Prison for burglary.
Tony Carter has been shooting heroin since he was 15 years old. Now he’s in prison. Daytona NA Daytona Rehab
Carter, 25, has spent the past few years in and out of jail. He has spent even longer in and out of rehab and Narcotics Anonymous. He is currently serving a 1½- to 4-year sentence for burglarizing the Hanscom’s Truck Stop on the Route 1 Bypass in Portsmouth.
That same truck stop is where he said he became addicted to heroin. In a recent interview with Seacoast Sunday at the N.H. State Prison for Men in Concord, Carter said he worked long hours at the truck stop starting when he was 14 years old, and was exposed to the seedy world of drugs by truck drivers coming in from all over the country.
“Once I found it, I really enjoyed to escape reality because I hated reality,” he said. “Waking up in the morning, putting the needle in my arm, before I’ve even had my cup of coffee, it doesn’t come as anything other than second nature to me. It’s what I’ve been used to since I was a young adolescent.”
On many occasions, those truck drivers would allow the teenage Carter to join them on trips to Philadelphia, Manhattan, or as far away as Detroit. While on those joy rides, he said, the temptation to do drugs was great.
He recalled one scenario that unfolded at the truck stop when he was 16 and shooting speedballs, a dangerous mixture of heroin and cocaine.
“I was in a truck driver’s truck getting high with him,” he said. “I don’t really remember exactly what happened, but I wake up and … one of the guys I was working with was smacking me in the face. I had puke frozen all down the front of my shirt. It’s the middle of February (and) I had a T-shirt on outside. I’m leaning up against the pump. I didn’t think nothing of it. I don’t know why it didn’t come as more of a shock to me.”
For the past decade, Carter said, he has been taking the concept of living life in the fast lane to extremes. “I took the whole ‘live each day like it’s your last’ and turned it into live each day like I wanted it to be my last,” he said. Holly Hill Florida Commissioners
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