Tennessee couple’s before and after photos of meth addiction, recovery goes viral

Coming Clean –

August 3, 2019 – He made a Facebook post on July 26, showing a before-and-after photo of him and his wife, Ashley Walker, with the #CleanChallenge hashtag. As of Friday morning, , the post has 188,000 reactions, 16,000 comments and 135,000 shares.  The first picture was taken in December 2016, after Brent said he had just served two years for three counts of sale and deliveries of methamphetamine and felony evading of law enforcement.  He and his then on-and-off girlfriend, Ashley, were still meeting up to get high. But a close call with a drug test while on probation made Brent re-evaluate their decisions. He told Ashley he was done.  They consider themselves blessed, but they said it wasn’t easy by any means.Ashley had her own history with substance abuse, including marijuana and meth.  Brent and Ashley spent 2 months in friends’ homes before getting their own place. They’d walked to work and the grocery store. Brent was a manager at a car wash and Ashley worked at a local factory.  About four months later, they bought a 2001 Honda Civic.

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