360 has long been an advocate for those suffering from mental health and addiction issues. He’s been open about his own battles with addiction, which at one point saw him overdosing whilst on tour promoting his last album.

The rapper, whose real name is Matt Colwell, is now almost two years sober, but says there is one drug that still haunts him – ice. In a lengthy Facebook post, Colwell shared his experience with the drug and hit out at the way the government has managed Australia’s ice epidemic.

“With my drug issues my poison was mainly opiates,” Colwell writes. “I used to idolise people like Anthony Kiedis and Motley Crue etc and all I wanted to be was a rock star and live that life.”

“I actually lived that life and it was so much fun, at the start. So though my poison was opiates I’d be down for anything and everything. Coke, MDMA, benzos, acid, shrooms, DMT, speed and the monster itself meth.”

Colwell reiterates that he was “never a huge ice smoker”, but he views it as the most insidious drug out there. “There is one that is leagues ahead of every other drug in every way and that is ICE. It’s the MOST addictive by far,” he writes.

He’s not wrong. Ice does rank with heroin as amongst the most addictive narcotics on the market. “Majority of the people I know who use the s**t end up doing it so much and for so long that they never come back,” Colwell writes.

“The fact that in most rural towns you can probably find ice easier than you can weed says something. I know some people have had to move to another country because it’s everywhere here and if you’re an addict it can be impossible to escape.”

“When I was young people would pass around a joint at parties, maybe even a rolled up note for some coke or x to snort. These days people are passing around pipes.” Frighteningly, Colwell says that despite being clean for almost two years, ice is still a cause for concern.

“I’ve been clean for nearly 2 years. Ice wasn’t even my poison but it’s the only drug that I still get cravings for,” he reveals, before taking the Australian government to task for their anti-ice campaigns, which he says do more harm than good.

“These government funded anti-ice campaigns are f***ing terrible though,” he writes. “They have 0 idea that simply showing a picture of a pipe will have every addict itching. Even just looking at the glass pipe literally sets them off, it’s THAT bad.”

“I guarantee that there’s people out there who saw that advertisement and it caused them to go and score,” he adds. “Being an ice addict in recovery is kinda like being in the cast of The Walking Dead but in real life.”

“The zombies = current ice addicts and the unaffected people are the addicts in recovery. The zombies/addicts are f***ing everywhere. You have to avoid them at any cost cos even a tiny nibble will turn you into one of them again. Run for your f***ing life!”

Colwell actually makes a good point. Speaking to Fairfax, TaskForce CEO Raymond Blessing said he has seen ice addicts have their cravings triggered by anti-ice advertisements.

“It just seems to create more of an issue for them about initiating cravings or causing that kind of activity in their mind,” he said.

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