Professor David Wilson spoke to Aidan for his weekly crime column.
Through writing and speaking, Aidan has become an activist tackling the drugs-death crisis in Scotland.
As a schoolboy already caught up in addiction, I stood outside of a McDonalds waiting for a man I thought was my friend.
A friend I met online. It would change my life forever. I was a streetwise kid growing up in a tough housing scheme. But the Internet was a new phenomenon.
Euphoric Recall details my recovery from extreme trauma and addiction. As a Scottish working-class lad who grew up in a new town—Livingston—I survived brutal experiences with suicide, violence and severe mental health issues. One day, I decided to write a memoir about it all.
I hold nothing back.
"Euphoric Recall is powerful and gritty--a memoir that explores addiction from the inside, rather than through the hazy lens of statistics and remote experts.
An illuminating and important book."
"A truly essential read for those interested in lived experiences - and not just statistics."
"We need more books like this - authentic and brutally honest about growing up in the lowlands of working class Scotland. What Martin allows the reader to do is to come to their own answer to that staple question of social sciences - nature or nurture?"
"Aidan Martin delivers a gritty gut-punch memoir about the realities and complexities of addiction. Raw, honest and insightful, Aidan shows the reader how compulsion and addiction are just the tip of a much deeper iceberg that has sunk many a Titanic. "
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Local activist demands support for West Lothian children battling mental health problems.
Through writing and speaking, Aidan has become an activist tackling the drugs-death crisis in Scotland.
Positive change. Daily Record interview.
West Lothian drugs death stats are “tragedy and a disgrace”
Interview with Daily Record.
Edinburgh Evening News article.
“Writing and creating is my drug now”
Interview with Edinburgh News.