I am from Vero Beach, Florida. I started using drugs when I was 13. I started with drinking and smoking pot. Then I moved onto the harder drugs when I was 15: cocaine, crack, pills. My drugs of choice were meth and alcohol. I lived on the streets from the age of 19 to about 22. I had twin boys and a little girl with an ex- girlfriend. My kids were taken away when they were two. I then moved to Lewiston to be with my brother and to get my life together. It helped, but I got involved with the wrong crowd and was still doing drugs. I was arrested and put on Drug Court and that is when my recovery started. I am getting my life together. I kept a job, I have my licenses, a car, and I’m living at the Oxford House. I go to meetings, I work the 12-step program, I am going to be phasing to phase 3 of Drug Court in March, I am the president of the Nez Perce Oxford House, and going to school for my GED. I enjoy life today.
