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and the doctors would not

give 'em to her anymore.

So, this friend

gave her a little bag,

and said, "Just sniff this.

"It'll do the same

thing as the pills do,

"only thing, you don't

need to take five pills.

"Just take this

little bag, sniff it,

and you'll feel better."

And it worked!

She took it and it worked.

I remember thinking, like, "Wow.

This is the best feeling in the world."

It was really, like...

I had, like,

not a care in the world.

It made me feel like

I could do anything.

I felt like Super Woman.

It's a lot cheaper than...

buying 15 Norcos a day

at five dollars apiece.

You know,

"Here's a ten-dollar bag of heroin,

and it'll last you

three days."

I didn't have anxiety

or I didn't feel depressed.

I felt happy, I felt warm.

I felt like it loved me,

and I loved it back.

It felt like I was in, like,

a relationship with it,

like, I felt like I had

a relationship with heroin.

It was just the best

feeling in the world.

I snorted heroin

for about a year.

Me and Ashley both did.

Kelly:

They did not know

the scope of the addiction

that they were up against,

like a tidal wave.

You know, you're standing on a beach,

and you've got this...

50-foot wave coming at you.

And I remember

Ashley saying,

"It's not like we're sticking

needles in our arms, Mom."

Stephany:

"That's for real junkies.

"You know,

I'll never do that.

"I'll never touch a needle.

That's disgusting,

that's gross."

And somewhere...

along that time,

somebody introduced

the needle to them.

Stephany:

You only have to do a little tiny bit,

and you get, you know,

ten times as high,

and it lasts

ten times as long,

but then, it, like, gets

so out of control so fast.

If I was lucky, you know,

it would only take me

ten minutes to hit a vein,

and then I could go

lay back down.

I had no veins left.

I mean, in my neck,

and the side of my face,

palms of my hands,

my fingers,

I mean, like, on my chest,

and I'd be covered in blood.

I would just sleep all day,

till I woke up

from being sick again,

and then I'd have to go

through it all over again.

When I started using...

I had my own three-bedroom,

two-story house.

I was a stay-at-home Mom

with my two-year-old daughter.

Me and my daughter's father,

we each had our own new cars.

We had a pool in our backyard,

we had two dogs.

I had, like,

the perfect life.

By the time I started

injecting heroin,

I had lost my house.

We'd sold both of our cars,

and I lost custody

of my daughter.

Kelly:

I remember Ashley saying,

"I don't want

to do this anymore."

It was no longer a party,

and she was a slave to it.

Stephany:

She got into a fight with her fianc,

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