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Age: 26
Gender: Female
Location: Boise, Idaho

I started using meth at age 15. My mother had just passed away and a guy I knew said it would help with the pain. What a lie he was telling me, but I didn't yet know that. About 2 days later I was addicted. From this point on, my life was a whirlwind of incarceration, men, prostitution, self mutilation, and crime. I have had a child while incarcerated, spending just 36 hours with my precious baby girl before I was taken back to the prison, which is very sad. I am 26 years old and I have full dentures.....meth destroyed my teeth. I have been married twice, now to a nice man, but my first husband is a meth addict. He was just recently sentenced to 29 years for robbing a bank in Boise, his reason; he needed money to get high. Meth is Death. I cannot stress to my children and stepchildren that even one time is too many......I look back sometimes and think, what if I had never tried meth??? My life would have been different, better I am sure of it. I am currently meth free for 2.5 years, and almost weekly I hear of someone I knew who went back to the Penn. I won't be that way anymore, I have my children to raise...I never want to hear them say again that my mom's in prison, my mom's in the bathroom, or if I was ever to use again, my mom's dead. I know what it is like to lose a parent, and there was nothing my mother could have done to save her own life, there is something that I can do to save my own.

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