Michelle was only in middle school when her addiction began. It followed her through marriage and motherhood, and she eventually lost custody of her son.
“I thought if I was married, I wouldn’t be a drug addict. If I was a mom, I wouldn’t be a drug addict,” said Michelle, one of the recovering addicts featured in the Frederick County Department of Health’s new anti-drug campaign.
“I was like Jekyll and Hyde. I had three different personalities,” she said.
Community in Crisis: Chasing the High , an in-depth look at the heroin problem in Maryland, airs Thursday at 7 p.m. on ABC2 News.
Bradley said being addicted to heroin was like nothing he had ever experienced.
“The problem was me the whole time, but I wanted to blame it on everybody else,” he said.
Karl spoke of how his addiction quickly rook over his life.
“The thing about heroin is, once you start doing it on a daily basis, you depend on it,” Karl said.
Michelle, Bradley and Karl are three of five people featured in Take Back My Life, a campaign from the Health Department aimed at expanding awareness of risks associated with prescription opioid and heroin addiction.
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