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Find Your Path

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At the age of 15 I began using cocaine and by the time I was 17 I was addicted to meth. I did not care if I lived or not. I dropped out of high school at age 16, also. Drugs were my way of masking the pain I had but I did not know what the source of the pain was until I turned 17. I had a flashback of sexual abuse for the first time. All I could do was use more drugs to ease the pain. Life was not an option I desired. By the age of 18 I had already survived 3 overdoses. One day I decided enough was enough and went clean cold turkey. It was not an easy decision because when a person decides to become clean those they have surrounded themselves with will not support and you need to completely remove yourself from the dangerous environment you are so used to. I did just that. I just left and did not tell anyone where I was going.
That was May 2004. In September 2004 I found out I was going to become a mother for the first time. I believe God placed me in this role so I would never look back to my old life and relapse. Well, it worked. I never looked back to drugs and I share my story with others. I did not just stop at becoming a parent, I knew I had much more in myself than I cared to give credit for. Here I am now working on my Doctorate degree and a mother of three. Life does give us many chances to succeed and follow our path in a healthy way. The only catch is - you have to want to be more than a victim in the path of life and become a survivor and live life to its' fullest.



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1. Laiveen
Muy interesante el video, pero no veo ninguna actividad en el blog. A que se debera esto? Como madre hispana pienso que tenemos muy pocos recursos en espanol sobre el tema de las drogas y nuestros hijos. Algo que nos esta afectando cada dia mas. Me gustaria encontrar un chat o blog en espanol donde podamos compartir nuestras experiencias.
2. Ruben Dario Hoyos
estoy en colombia y estoy maravillado con excelente imformacion, soy rehabilitado de conmunidad terapeutica y me gusta la prevencion ya q por ley hay q masificarla pero es poco el apoyo que del gobierno se recibe en cuanto a drogas. PUEDO IMPRIMIR LA GUIA HABLEMOS DE DROGA PARA FOROCOPIARLA Y REGALARLE A LOS PADRES DE FAMILIA QUIERO LLEGARLE A TODOS. ASESORADO POR PSICOLOGOS Y ESPECIALISTAS EN TRABAJO SOCIAL QUEDO ATENTO A SU RESPUESTA YA Q DEBO RESPETAR LA MARCA REGISTRADA Y NO QUIERO PROBLEMAS ESPERO LA MAXIMA AYUDA YA Q ES PRIMORDIAL LA PREVENCION EN COLOMBIA
3. Jorge Cuevas
Me gustaria que hubiera videos, muchos videos de jovenes (hombres y mujeres) que se han drogado o que estan en las dogras y las consecuencias de ello. Es mucho mas facil que mis hijos vean y oigan a un joven con estos problemas y nada mas "blablablabla" (como ellos dicen) de lo que los padres les podemos decir.