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To: Skooz; Woogit
Thank you all for sharing your stories...this hits real close to home. I am driving my daughter to court ordered rehab tomorrow. She started using about 2 years ago. Her then 18 mo. old daughter found the drugs and took them to her dad. We tried to get her into rehab, but then she took off on us. Her boyfriend got sole custody of the baby and moved in with his parents, I pay child support to help him out. She then burglarized my house and when she got picked up, she was in a stolen vehicle and had drugs on her.

She just spent a year in prison and had a baby while in there, he was adopted by a very nice lady and fortunately was not born addicted. Being in the medical portion of the hospital really opened her eyes...she told me that people were dying all around her from the effects of long term drug use and associated diseases, such as AIDS. The last two years have been so hard on me, the first year not knowing where she was at, whether she would be found in a ditch somewhere dead, then dealing with the pregnancy, adoption and prison issues. I pray that she will be able to turn her life around, and eventually reunite with her children. It is going to be an uphill battle, but I think she is ready for it now, although she admits she is scared.

35 posted on 11/09/2004 7:02:40 AM PST by ravingnutter
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To: ravingnutter
the medical portion of the hospital

Meant to say medical portion of the prison...duh...more coffeeeeee....

37 posted on 11/09/2004 7:05:29 AM PST by ravingnutter
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To: ravingnutter
My heart breaks for you and your daughter. May God give you strength.

I cannot imagine being able to break that addiction--permanently--without direct divine intervention.

Without Jesus Christ, I would have remained a junky and would either be dead or in prison by now.

God can break her chains and set her free of meth forever. She is still very young and has her whole life ahead of her.

38 posted on 11/09/2004 7:08:42 AM PST by Skooz (Any nation that would elect John Kerry as it's president has forfeited it's right to exist.)
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