At 21, Recovering Heroin Addict From Aurora Looks for a Fresh Start in Life
At 21, recovering heroin addict from Aurora looks for a fresh start in life
He and a girlfriend had taken heroin with a woman who'd overdosed and died in her sleep. Lewis urged him to call the cops. Afterward, he says, his … But after six months, he says, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered a …
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At 21, a recovering heroin addict starts over
By then, Lewis was a $ 100-a-day addict. Heroin was no longer fun. He needed it to get rid of the sweats and the shakes, the body cramps, the aches in his bones. “I had to use,” he says, “to feel normal, like a regular person.” Lewis was consumed by …
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