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    Monthly Archive for: "February, 2017"
    By Safe Communities
    In Stories of Hope
    Posted February 27, 2017

    My Will to Complete Drug Abuse Treatment

    My will and attitude In November of 2009 I was ready to change my life. I was tired of being dependent on the drugs, and my will and attitude carried me through. I was living in a small town in [...]

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    By Safe Communities
    In Stories of Hope
    Posted February 27, 2017

    There is Hope for Anyone

    I guess my story starts in a shack down on the river over 50 years ago. My father bought this house with land for $500. I remember if you dropped something you had to hurry and catch it otherwise [...]

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    By Safe Communities
    In Stories of Hope
    Posted February 27, 2017

    Life of an Addict

    This is my story. When I was a baby I was put up for adoption, I was the only child of three put up, therefore it caused me to have abandonment issues. I started drinking at a very young age, I [...]

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    By Safe Communities
    In Stories of Hope
    Posted February 27, 2017

    Drugs Led Me to the Edge of Life

    When I was 12 I started smoking cigarettes. To this day I still wish I hadn’t started. When I was 13 I met this friend who had other mates including drug dealers. One time we thought it would be [...]

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    By Safe Communities
    In Stories of Hope
    Posted February 27, 2017

    Addiction Life

    I started out just having fun with my friends drinking, smoking bud. Then things progressed slowly. I was around a lot of drug dealing and everything that comes with the really good and the [...]

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    By Safe Communities
    In Parent Stories
    Posted February 27, 2017

    My Daughter is an Opiate Addict

    Hi my name is Nancy and my daughter is an opiate addict. When I was 19 years old I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. She was a wonderful child, a straight-A student, and very sweet. She [...]

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    By Safe Communities
    In Parent Stories
    Posted February 27, 2017

    Slipping on Ice

    This is my book on how we saved our daughter from the devastating grips of “The Devil’s Drug” — methamphetamine.I wrote this book after taking extreme measures to get our daughter off of this [...]

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    By Safe Communities
    In Parent Stories
    Posted February 27, 2017

    How Does the Family Recover?

    This story is about how my family has dealt with our child’s problem. We were lucky in that she went to a residential treatment center and got clean and sober. She goes to meetings and works her [...]

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