Mia’s Story is a trauma-informed eBook exploring heroin use and addiction through lived experience—focusing on pressure, emotional impact and risk. It avoids shock or sensational detail, centring instead on understanding, consequences and recovery to support calm, compassionate conversations.  Designed for independent learning or guided one-to-one work, it integrates MindShift (CBT-informed) tools, SMART planning and mindfulness breathing to build insight, emotional regulation and progress towards safer choices and stability. Suitable for education, safeguarding, early-help and youth justice.