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My Ongoing Battle with Substance Abuse

“I was only 11 years old, but my age didn’t stop me from falling into the same trap my father did.” A...

With a school filled with druggies and a neighborhood filled with them, too, I was out of luck. Doing drugs was how...

We just got back from feeding Harlow at the hospital, and we were hanging out in the motor home. I was getting...

I sold a lot of stuff at school: candy, soda, bike parts, fireworks, pocket knives and, of course, marijuana.

Drugs tear families apart — it did to mine. I was just 12 years old when I realized that my mother was...

We have found running our national youth advisory board to be essential to our work.

Every day is a struggle for us addicts, and, yet, despite our failures and relapses, every day is a new day to...

Now, things have gone bad with my birth mom again. She’s off drugs, but she still screams abuse at me and dates...