Addiction is full of contradictory and paradoxical behavior.
From numerous guests, we've heard stories of growing up around or being exposed to a drug centered life at an early age. Often times it's recognized by the person as being not something that is desirable - and they make the commitment to themselves: "I am going to do something different."
Natasha never planned on becoming inmate W090737 - but to paraphrase her, she became everything she never wanted to be and then some.
In Ep. 020 Natasha talks about moving in with the Oxy Contin dealer, her different methods of trying to manager he disease, and how she was ultimately able to maintain long term abstinence and reintegrate back into her own family and larger society.
Today, Natasha is a college graduate (Go Bobcats) and a Licensed Social worker.
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