High Noon: Overcoming Addiction

Twelve years ago, Kari Kelli lay curled up on the floor of a room at Anna Ogden Hall. She hadn’t eaten solid food in months and weighed 100 pounds. She’d lost her children, her car and her job. She’d walked away from it all for what she called the love of her life – methamphetamine. “I gave up everything for that drug,” Kelli said. “It chewed me up, spit me out and left me for dead.” As she lay on the floor, sick and broken, “I remember daring God to do something with my life,” she said/Cindy Hval, Washington Voices. More here .

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Have you or anyone close to you, ever beaten an addiction? How did you do it?