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Age: 25
Gender: Female
Location: Twin Falls

I began using meth when I was in 7th grade just to get through school. I hated school and snorting a line every few days or so made school interesting, at least I thought it did. My 9th grade year my mom pulled me out to home school me. This caused me to lose all my connections. I got clean until I was about 19 and got introduced to some people who just fed me dope whenever I wanted. Boy I thought I was cool. Soon these "friends" only came around when they wanted me to help them steal something so they could go hook up. I thought they were my friends, so I helped. Eventually I started going to jail, and to prison. This didn't even stop me, it just made me want to get out and get high again. Finally I decided I'd give probation a try and if in a year it didn't change my mind about drugs I'd go back. Eventually I felt like the probation officers were just out to get me so I started using again. Shortly after that I had come down for about a month and found out I was pregnant. By this time my PO was gonna throw me in jail so I went on the run and stayed on the run for close to a year and in that year I had a baby and found out that I LOVE BEING CLEAN AND SOBER. It's so much easier than being high. When I was high I didn't lose myself as others say they did. I'M STILL HERE. I didn't lose my family, they just took a vacation from me but now that I'm clean THEY'RE STILL HERE. All I lost when I was using was materialistic items and my self worth - which being clean I've gotten back - and the biggest thing I feel I lost while being in the meth world is TIME. Time is a valuable thing, and it's not something we can ever get back. Everything else I lost I can replace, but time I just can't.

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