After Meth: Dealing, desperation and a house fire

One night, Sky Moneyastook 17 sleeping pills.

He wanted to die.Hewas meth addict and dealer, living in a trap house.

He woke up, choking on dense, black smoke in a fire set by drug dealers.

Moneyas escaped throughthe frontwindow. That house fire saved him.

"Here I am crying to get out of this house and 15 hours before I was trying to kill myself. It was kind of a wake-up call for me," he said.

Moneyas' harrowing story,and his descent into meth addiction and then intorecovery is the subject of Part 2of After Meth, a new series of three short films.

The four-minute long filmwasproduced by Winnipeg filmmakers Tyler Funk and Carmen Ponto forCBC's Creator Network, whichworks with emerging storytellers.

Moneyas' story is the second of three films by Funk and Ponto about meth addiction. In the first film, Dane Bourgetrevealed how meth took over his life within weeks, causing him to temporarily abandon his family.

The filmsfeature personal storiesfromthree Winnipeggers who are now sober.The third and final piece will be released next week byCBC Manitoba.

Now 30 years old, Moneyasspent four years in a fog of addiction. It started with drinking at age 18, and escalated to cocaine, opiodsand then meth.

Moneyas was able to dig himself out withe the help of a 28-day treatment program and an 11-month stay in Two Ten Recovery, a sober-living centre in Winnipeg.

He has advice for anyone currently in the vice of addiction.

"There is help, seek help, talk to someonebut remember you have to want it in order for it to work," Moneyas said. "There's only two ways out of addiction; death or help. Please choose help becauseyou areworth living."