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11-10-2018 – “I was really sad and I didn’t want to feel my feelings,” she says. “I turned to the most natural way I could find to cover that all up and I started using drugs: prescription pills; heroin for a little bit of time.” Veum’s family got her into treatment. She’d been sober for nine years when she and her husband, Ben, decided to have a baby. Motherhood was something she wanted to feel. If she needed an epidural during labor, Veum told her doctor, she didn’t want any fentanyl in it. She didn’t want to feel high. “I remembered seeing other friends,” she says. “They’d used it, and they were feeling good and stuff. I didn’t want that to be a part of my story.”
