You lifted Derek out of the pit of addiction…..
“The devil was lashing me,” he says. “I was so hurt and depressed.”
Because after a successful stretch of living a drug-free life, Derek found himself at the bottom of a pit again. He wanted out.
“One knock on the door derailed everything . . “
After years of struggling with addiction, time behind bars, and a traumatic accident that put him in a coma,
Derek was determined to build a meaningful life. And he did. “I’d been through recovery, was getting myself together, and doing the things I knew I had to do,” says Derek.
The boxes were checked — Derek had a well paying job, bought his own home, and was dreaming about going back to school for his master’s degree. But one knock on the door derailed everything.
“My cousin showed up at my house with alcohol,” says Derek. Derek fought off the temptation, saying no to his old way of life. But the very next weekend,
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