Doing No Harm –
December 9, 2018 – Lindsay Bunker woke up from a nightmare. The 32-year old lives with her 6-month old daughter on the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin. She’s struggled with addiction for over 10 years, mostly to heroin. Then came the nightmare: She dreamt two men were attacking her baby while she could only think about drugs. “In my mind I was thinking, ‘If I can just get one hit, if I can get one line, I can save her,” she recalls, pausing before continuing, “I woke up and I was panicking. How can a mother think like that?” It was a wake-up call. Bunker says she realized in that moment heroin was “evil” and she resolved to get into treatment. In a lot of rural America, that’s where the story could have ended.
