A fearful mother of an addict
Because heroin is so addictive, I will live in fear for the rest of my life of my daughter overdosing and dying. In 2014, she overdosed twice within a two and a half month period of time. I found her the first time and thought that she was so scared of almost dying that she would never touch it again.
This addiction affects the entire family. I have been caring for her son ever since she had the second overdose. He was not quite nine months of age when she overdosed the second time and went to jail. Finding treatment is very difficult. The only way that we were able to get her into treatment was to foot the bill ourselves.