When Robin Norbury was wrestling with a substance use disorder, his body weight had dropped to 112 pounds on his six-foot frame. He had been addicted to drugs for about 20 years. The last 10 to 12 were particularly bad. In and out of hospital, the 60-year-old Courtenay man had reached a point where he thought his life was over. “I basically resigned myself to, ‘This is it, nothing else is going to happen. I’m going to do this until it’s all over’,” Norbury said.