Drugs, physical abuse ruin her marriage
“At first, our marriage was beautiful. It was blossoming. What I didn’t know was that he was a functioning addict. “He had a job. He paid the bills. He bought the groceries. But at the end...
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Now she’s walking in homeless person’s shoes
“I moved here last November to get off drugs, to get away from all of that. “I come from a pretty sheltered life. I didn’t grow up like this. I had money. I have parents, but...
Son’s use of drugs leads to problems at home
“He loved old people and kids. He especially liked to help older people. The first day we moved in (to our house), he walked across the street to ask a 90-something-year-old man if he could mow...
‘I think God took him out … so he wouldn’t be lost’
“When you get into heavy drugs like that, people are not going to give you money to go buy more drugs. So he would steal. That’s how he died. He and a friend broke into somebody’s...
Children miss their dad after his death
“He loved his kids. I mean, he cried over them all of the time. He had six in all, including twin girls who were born shortly before he died. “It was the most devastating for his...
12-step program ‘coolest thing I’ve ever done’
“I started going to NA and AA about 13 years ago, trying to get clean and sober. About five years ago, I finally did get sobered up. “I took the 12 steps. Did the whole process....
‘I was into the addiction part of the money’
“I hung out with people who used to do a lot of dope, sell a lot of dope. That’s why I left from down here back in the ‘80s. It was too fast. I was getting...
Even missing a hand, ‘there’s nothing I can’t do’
“About 10 years ago I was running from myself, and I pulled over and went to sleep in my truck. A cop woke me up, and I refused to get out of my truck. They threw...
‘I know you don’t need drugs to have fun’
“We just had the last day of school. It’s all right, but it kind of sucks. I kind of like school. I like the friends there. I don’t like to be alone. I don’t know how...
Big drug bust on 9/11 not easy to forget
“I worked 28 years for the Texas Department of Public Safety. My best and, unfortunately, saddest memory came in 2001. I was a canine handler at the time, and one of the troopers had stopped a...
