"If there is any interest in learning more about my substance use disorder and how I overcame this to live this beautiful life I experience now, I would be happy to offer much more if I can give anyone hope where there seems there is none."
"I will do what I can to fight to remove the stigma of substance use disorder so that more people will seek help and be free. They are worth saving."
"I always wanted to change my reality, and I wanted to be anyone other than who I was."
“Addiction didn't care who I was, where I was from, how much money I had, what job I worked, or how much my family loved me.”
“The freedom I had thought I found in my addiction I quickly found in recovery.”
"All it took was for me to be going through a rough time and to have heroin in my face that I started experimenting with it."
"I attempted to start fresh and make new friends; however, after some individuals learned that I was in recovery, I was quickly ostracized."
"My chronic pain limited everything."
"I always said to him just, "Try. Try. Please try." It breaks my heart now knowing he was trying – just by him coming back home and walking through that door, sleeping in his own bed under our roof, and that was hard for him."
"The way I have dealt with this grief is to speak and try to help other kids and parents who have been affected by this disease."
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