Columbus Drug Addiction Help: Mother’s Heroin Addiction

Lisa Ling, an ABC News commentator, is sitting in a middle-class suburban kitchen interviewing a woman heroin addict. Mary sits in the kitchen looking beyond the kitchen glass doors viewing her four year old daughter at play. Throughout the interview, Mary is trying to convey the difficulties she has embarked upon to quit her seven year heroin addiction.

Mary grew up in the small town of Plymouth, Ohio, a population of 1,800. When Lisa asked the community how a small town can be having problems with heroin addiction, a gentlemen stated, “There’s not one person, in the community, who has not been touched by this addiction”.

It is difficult to understand Mary’s addiction, especially being a twenty four year old mother and pregnant. Mary is five months pregnant and continues with her addiction because of her unborn child. A pregnant women cannot stop heroin, cold-turkey, because the unborn child is addicted and will die if she stops. Mary was receiving methadone treatment but chose to stop and continue with her heroin addiction.

Lisa is interviewing Mary as the video shows her shooting up her veins with heroin in various parts of her body; thighs, fingers, chest and feet. Mary tells of her daily routine: waking up with sweats and sickness at 4:00 am, taking her heroin shot, returning to sleep for another four hours, taking her next fix, and driving to Columbus, Ohio for her heroin buy.

Mary tells of numerous mothers being strung out on heroin, mothers in their 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s. She knows her daughter and unborn child deserve better, and she want better for them. Mary and her mother are optimistic and continue looking for a drug addiction program for her.

There are no detox centers or any long term drug program available in her county. Soon after the interview Mary and her mother appeared on Oprah, where she was offered help….she accepted.

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