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Article: FORMER DRUG ADDICT INSPIRES WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH AUDIENCE
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 6, 2007
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Central Carolina Community College issued the following press release:
Deanna Jones knows what it's like to hit bottom.
It's lying on a cold, hard tile floor in a mental health facility because you're a drug addict in rehabilitation and too exhausted to climb into bed. It's loving a boyfriend who has abused you for years.
It's being broke, homeless, jobless and friendless. It's trying to commit suicide twice. It's breaking your family's heart because they tried so hard to help you and nothing made any difference.
Hitting bottom is also praying fervently to God to help you, feeling that he will - and then finding out that you're pregnant; that you, a drug addict, are about to bring an ...