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Having left her foster family at age 14, Amy went through over 8 rehabs while dealing with addiction and substance abuse. She shares her struggle through addiction, rehabilitation, losing her son and her life and finally achieving full recovery with methadone maintenance.
“I was adopted from Little Wanderers Orphanage in Belfast. I was under a year old when my mother and father adopted me. I always felt I didn't fit, and it wasn't lack of love. I never felt like I fit anywhere. I left home around my 15th birthday.
It started with psychedelics, then cocaine, and that took me down real quick. I went and lived in Silver Palace, a drug house in the town that I lived in. Years later, I continued to use. I ended up pregnant with my son, who is 35 now.
When I found out I was pregnant with my son, I quit everything. It was important to me to be a good mom.
My addiction came back after a year. I ended up in my first rehab when my son was two. The final straw was when I got arrested with morphine sulfate.
This was the year I lost my son, 1991. I felt like I lost the best part of me.
I called the police and said I needed a safe place to stay until I can get a ride out of town. That was the beginning of turning everything around.
I ended up in Acadia. I graduated a little over six months later. Two years later, I got my son back, and I was working as a nurses aid.
Methadone maintenance had never been offered to me before, and I wish it had a long time ago. It gave me my life back. I'm the poster child for a methadone clinic, and I'm proud of it. Methadone is a treatment that helps people like me be a better me.”
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15 сен 2024
