Faces of Addiction –
November 29, 2019 – Among them is Jen Elizabeth, 42 and from the city of Temecula in California, who was brought up surrounded by addiction and suffered sexual abuse as a child. She began drinking alcohol when she was 12, later moving onto heroin use, and spent 13 years in and out of homelessness.
“At that point in my life I didn’t care about myself or my life at all,” she said.
“I had never faced my sexual abuse or the abuse I suffered in my home,” she said.
“I thought I was worthless, dirty and unlovable. I was a slave to my addiction.”
Jen decided to get sober in 2010 after being arrested for drug possession and receiving stolen property. “A tiny spark was ignited that finally believed just a little bit that I was worth more than that life, that I wasn’t meant to die alone from an overdose in some riverbed,” she said.
