Meth Treatment

She shows the scrapbook that she put together in Alaska. What she wrote then, in that period of new possibility, was simple, but hopeful.

I am now friendless, jobless, carless. The only thing I have now is my life and my freedom from something that controlled everything I thought, I did, and said. . . . TWEAK.

Peter Scanlon

Connie Irvine (right) worries for her daughter Jamie.

Peter Scanlon

Alishia Hight (right), with her husband Joe, turned her life around through treatment.

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I may be carless, jobless, moneyless, and just have nothing at all, but I control my life and myself.

That was true, for a moment.

But then Jamie took that plane home to Phoenix. And then she picked up the meth pipe.