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‘I’ve spent almost all my time as an adult high on drugs. Travelling in Asia saved my life’

After his writing about his recovery from methamphetamine addition was nominated for a Walkley award (awards presented annually in Australia for excellence in journalism), Luke Williams was high on meth again. Three years of travelling around Asia – which almost killed him – showed him how to live. He details those experiences in his new memoir, Down and Out in Paradise, which is published on September 1. Here, Williams writes about the journey that resulted in the book.I flew to Kuala Lumpur…

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