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Shot up meth as a 16-year-old mother. Now I’m sober.

Ashley

I was sixteen when I got pregnant, at the end of my ninth grade year. I met Cory who ended up being my daughter’s father. I quit hanging out with all my friends on the cheer leading team, and started hanging out with his frie...

After addiction to crack, my family was restored.

Thomas

He said, "We can make a hundred thousand a year." I said, “Well, Let’s go!” The first year we made some good money; about sixty or seventy-thousand dollars. In two years of working with him I didn't know that he was using pow...

Chased by a narcotics agent. Caught by God.

Bob Lubell

"I got into buying drugs from the mafia in New York and selling drugs on college campuses. Just raising all the hell that I could at a young age."

How could someone like me marry a virgin?

Brandy

I’ve never in my life felt so wanted and so and so needed and so desirable.

Got involved in drugs and lost custody of my son.

Wendy C

I was a meth addict for ten years. I lost my first marriage due to the drugs. I said I would never get back in another relationship like that but I jumped right into another relationship with a man. It was even worse than my ...

A prostitute for years when I met my husband.

Marilyn

My husband helped me a lot. He cried. He prayed. When I would go back out and do wrong again he would come looking for me. He would forgive me.

After twenty jail terms, now able to be with my kids.

Eleonda

We got busted three times within three weeks. The last time we got busted was with felony possession. I was sentenced to eight years in prison.

He was 60. I was 14.

Cheryl

"I started to understand that was the void I was trying to fill is that I didn’t have Him in my life."

Followed my comedian dad toward death by drugs.

Dominick

The times I would overdose, and go to the emergency room the doctors would say, “Do you have a death wish?”

Forgave my stepfather who abused me.

Nicole

Reality is being so angry at your Mom for doing drugs but then a month later you're doing them with her.