How can a girl who grew up attending church, lived in a middle class home and attended great schools stoop so low? The answer is simple, heroin. It will first numb your pain while stealing your soul. This addiction takes hold quick and robs the person of their very existence. The person might spend a majority of their addiction chasing the dragon, never quite getting the initial feeling again. You know the feeling they had the first time they used.
This past week has been heartwrenching and traumatic for our family. Knowing the girl I raised was reported missing but not knowing where to look. Was she alive or was she dead ?Was she being raped or was she hurt , somewhere? We just didn't know!!! Seeing the MISSING PERSON poster made things more real and terrifying. Seeing my niece on a poster like I've seen thousand others brought tears to my eyes and many sleepless nights. During the day we waited for our phones to ring at the same time dreading that call telling us they found her body. Drug abuse doesn't only affect the person abusing the drug. It affects every person that loves them!!
Our nightmare is hopefully over or maybe this was a taste of what's to come. We don't know. That's the irony , you just don't know when someone you love becomes enslaved by drugs.
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