Heroin Addict-Heather 

Wow thank you for this video she use to be a good friend of mine and I haven't heard from her in over a year wow it breaks my heart if there s anyway of getting a hold of her I would love to talk to her and get her some help 💕 this purpose of these videos are to show you and learn from what real life people go through shmm some of you literally are straight pigs to talk the way you do about another human being you don't like what you see don't watch it and or leave negative comments this one hits home for me ....

Hi Heather, my little sister died in her sleep from using and drinking. She was in her 40's and left 5 children. Today is the best day to get clean.

She’s telling her story. Just because you feel she should move on from her trauma doesn’t mean she’s at that place yet. Sometimes just speaking these things help. We are to love and not judge.

Growing up with my mom and step dad being addicted to prescription pills my mom Over dosed in my basement last month. I made a choice early in life to NEVER go down the same road as them. I can't imagine doing to my daughter what my mom did to me. The cycle stops with me.

This is my story to a tee but with two kids ..baby daddy now in Attica prison for murder...I'm four year clean with my kids back..they hold the emotional scars of MY past life...I hold my guilt that will NEVER let me free... BUT... Life it's good and gives us what we need when we need and deserve it! To everyone battling inner deamons..... Never ever never ever give up!!!!!!!

I used to be an addict. Some may say I’m still an addict b/c I’ve been on Methadone for 15 years. Methadone saved my life. I’ll be a MD lifer before I go back to a street addict. This channel centers me. Whenever I get an itch I watch these kinds of channels and it keeps me sober. TY Mark. Your channel helps keep me grounded . TY again~~

i think it’s really good you do these interviews, it really humanizes them and shows that they are real people with real problems and not just some “addict”

Sensitive people have a higher addiction rate.

So selfish and completely unfair to bring a child in your foolishness. She knew very well she was not in a right state of mind/life to be a parent. This is what creates ugly generational curses in families. STOP having children if you are not capable of being the parent that your child needs. :-(.

I pray for Heather as I have an adult daughter named Heather also addicted to heroin.

I wonder if this show will ever expand to other cities. These short stories are intriguing and eye opening.

If you’ve ever questioned the damage a partner with narcissistic personality disorder can do, this is your antidote.

Amazing insight to this womans world. Hope she finds peace within herself and the happiness she is after.

i wish you luck Heather, no daughter is better without mum...YOU CAN do it, you can, for her.

Everyone in the comments talks about how horrendous the parents of these individuals were/are. If Heather’s daughter finds herself on that stool telling her story, I wonder what your opinion of Heather would be?

So many of these interviewees seem to have moved to LA with big dreams and money to burn and have ended up on Skid Row. It really lives up to its reputation as a town that chews you up and spits you out!!! So sad 😞

When visiting LA I have driven down skid row and I promise you she is not the only white woman there - there are people there from all walks of life and it really just shows and shines a light on the discrepancies in our society and that no matter what your color - no one is above this. I am making this statement because she alluded to the fact that she was one of the only white women there.

She may seem like she loves her daughter but she really loves the druggy lifestyle. They don't take children away and not give them back unless you are not complying. I personally know at least a dozen women who had their children removed permanently, they were all given many chances but they choose themselves and their addictions. Too much "I, I, Me,Me, I'm a victim".... don't be fooled, she chose her lifestyle and she likes it. She may as well as just sat there and vomited for 39 minutes as basically that is what she did with words.

I’ve heard this same word salad of excuse from myself and from many friends that I’ve lost. “Everyone else is so judge mental” oof, I feel for this woman but when I hear those same bullshit excuses it’s hard to feel sorry. Notice it’s always. “Me me me me me me, they did this for me. Yada yada” it’s always what have you done for me lately. She’s gotta change her own mind.

What a bad egg 🥚… she blames everyone but herself, contradicts her story, and is completely self centered. She makes one bad decision after another and complains about everything: “I had to get myself up for school… “😭 She is just a druggy partier and loves that scene more then anything. Usually these stories break my heart. Not this one…

If you think you're lonely imagine how your child feels. I get it. I'm an ex addict. Our kids have nothing to take the sadness away from us not being there. You need to start somewhere.

Omg she sounds like a run-on sentence

My cousin who is a dentist just told me that he did her teeth work (partial for front)....small world.

If ur trying to get ur daughter back, why are you still using??

There’s something I love about this girl. She’s still humble and can still see happiness sometimes. Not a lot of happiness, but she still smiles and still has a good head on her shoulders. She just lost her way, but it’s not too late. Praying for you Heather. For what it means.

You can't deny she loves her child. A mother's pain is like no other. I have faith in you,heather. Dont give up. You're not in over your head yet!

I believe the world became ugly once she decided to do drugs......please get help...your daughter needs you!!! You are who you hang with!! You don't need a man...get clean and get your daughter.....you are surrounded by drugs...get out and get help please you are beautiful.....

She has a lot of self pity, she needs to take responsibly for herself and her choices instead of blaming her situation on men as her family before she’ll ever get better

She said she was straight for 6 years then admits to pill addiction when her daughter was an infant. Post breast augmentation. My kids are my world. I can’t imagine choosing drugs over them. I guess I still can’t understand drug addiction. Everything that can happen to a woman I’ve experienced. I just feel like my greatest revenge against those men is to rise rise rise. My mom Was a drug addict. My father was murdered at age 5. Kids don’t ask to be born. Let’s take care of them ❤️❤️❤️

This is going to be enlightening. The most difficult addiction that I have beaten was nicotine. The trickiest was GHB because you become addicted very quickly. I have heard that heroin is the most addictive substance known to man and I can't imagine being in its clutches. I'm weak though, so that doesn't help. It seems the quality of a person's upbringing have a great impact on their perceived need to fill a hole in their life.

3:40 NO THOSE STRESSES ARE NOT MEANT FOR CHILDREN. I’m sorry you and thousands and thousands of children get a raw deal in life because of their parents. If you’re reading this and you put your own needs/wants before feeding your children and caring for them then SHAME ON YOU. Now is the time to change. Get someone to help you. Children deserve a healthy, stable, loving start in life. You can do it.

I’ve watched so many of these videos ....over & over the question comes up “are your mom & dad together “? 95% has had absolutely no parental guidance basically NO support system . There only support came from some kind of chemical It’s so sad to see that there is no end to this revolving. Door

The person who I thought was going to sell me marijuana sold me crystal meth? Really?? (Not that I think drug dealers are virtuous - but that one jumped out at me.)

You being a neutral person for them to speak to or confess to is a wonderful thing. May this RU-vid project go on as long as the people on the streets need it.

I know she said she wasn’t ready to go to rehab but her daughter is only 6. I hope she can do it to be in her daughter’s life so she doesn’t miss out. She still can be there for her if she gets it together! 🙏 I just wanted to add that I like how Mark ended this on a positive note. If possible, it seems like a great way to end every interview.

She's right on about no one really helps long term much anymore. Or so much to do that without help, well, yeah , fuck it. The world has changed so much. Humans are losing all sense of hope.

I’m a therapist and I work with the homeless, I wish I could travel and provide therapy to some of these individuals because I feel like so many need to be heard and validated......

She's not ready to get clean and sober, it's sad because she's still stuck in the phase where you're blaming the world and can't see the forest through the trees. I hope she meets her bottom soon so she can get the help she needs and becomes ready and willing to accept it.

I can identify with her. I met my ex and got her pregnant after first week at 29. I soon found out not only was she dysfunctional but her whole family was. I would have done anything to give my child a home that wasn't broken since I came from one. This woman cheated on me while she was pregnant but I stuck it out. I married her eventually and she decided to divorce me after cheating again. I stayed in same house for years to give illusion to my daughter but eventually it was over. My kid suffers to this day with depression I beleive because her parents split up and it KILLS me. I also ended up using opiates into my late 30's and early 40's due to car accident and mental weakness but finally got on methadone which was a saving grace. It took me YEARS to find out that this drug could save my life when hospitals and clinics gave me zero inclination that it could help. If anyone has opiate addictions from pills taking more than 60 mg daily or heroine, methadone will work but you HAVE to be ready to live. It saved my life and can save hers but she has to address her demons simultaneously and the only way to do that is through God. Nobody can help us but ourselves and God. In the end we are alone and nothing anyone else gives us can save us from ourselves.

This is definitely not a laughing matter but for some reason she reminds me of the wife on the movie Step Brothers that was obsessed with Will Ferrell! I haven’t watched it in a while though

Unfortunately children's lives don't pause until we are ready. It's often very hard. My husband, my mother and my best friend all died from different causes back to back in a short time. I could barely function and wanted to die myself losing my husband (of 20+ yrs), with actual PTSD being the one who found his body, but I have 5 kids...no excuses. I have to put them and their emotional health first because once I decided to get pregnant, I signed up for that responsibility no matter what life threw at me. I also was fostering 2 other children whose parents did this, refusing to put them first, while I was surviving actual tragedies. Words and promises mean nothing...actions are everything.

Heather not sure if you realize your voice has a calming effect. I would pay to have you read books online. No joke. Thank you for sharing your story wishing you the very best. ❤️🙏🏼

My comment is probably going to come off rough so I apologize in advance but I am A VERY caring & giving individual. This is probably the first SWU video I've watched & had next to no sympathy. All I'm hearing is a spit of responsibility followed with an excuse or victim statement. Ill be 100, I'm blow away she can function in that world alone, especially with her mindset that she NEEDS someone. *Find happiness in Yourself* - Your family has turned their backs. Hmm, how much shit did you drag them & that innocent baby through before they "turned their backs" or made you feel they did so? Because it's *Not* turning your back, it's stepping away, doing what's best until *You Decide To Quit Making Excuses and Feeling Sorry For Yourself.* *YOU* You know these men or womem use individuals so *Why do you KEEP falling for it?* You cry for your daughter, you wanna get your shit together so badly, she means So much - so tell me what *Motherly* act of going through hell or high water to make things right for YOU and HER have you done? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, Nothing. I had my 3 young. MY choice. It was hard, a mom of 3 by 21. So one summer I left my abuser of 5 years, was getting on my feet a?& mom took the kids. Yeah... I traveled the states, didn't handle my business. Was in Cali with a friend, we went with a friend of hers to the mall, my daughter's birthday was coming up, I wanted to buy her this necklace & this broad purposely took so long she couldn't stop for me so I was going to miss out on sending her a gift.... Not sure what but just as someone slapping the hell outta my face I woke up. Didn't say crap to no one, took the clothes on my back, the $43 in my pocket & bounced. Used $1 to get directions from a bum to the bus station, $2 to eat for 2 days, got home, got into a shelter, got my shit together & have NEVER LOOKED BACK. That daughter is now 26. A mom will *Do Whatever For Theirs.* so when YOU are truly ready to be done throwing your personal pitty party, *TRULY* you'll take your ass to treatment & *FIGHT THROUGH HELL OR HIGH WATER FOR YOU AND HER.* Now That's Church!

Oh yeah - your daughter was real "lucky" to have such a great life with material things🙄

Her hands are showing signs of addiction.

People can get angry all they want white women have been told 😳they are better than the next person this woman can go anywhere in the world they would give her a job she is there because she’s jealous of her own brother keep in mind the attention she seek she’s not getting she’s there because she wants to be there🙄🙄🙄🙄🇺🇸🤬🤬🤬

I hope she finds peace and love, i was addicted to heroin for many years my ass did heroin in California for about 7 years o moved to Oklahoma in 2012, and been clean since then i moved states that's what helped me!

I wish I could tell her to take what she grew up feeling and make sure her daughter knows that SHE is enough, don’t let her daughter feel abandoned. Rise above, girl. Find that strength inside and work hard to get clean to show your daughter that you beat that crap for HER. You CAN do it. You have that strength. You don’t deserve this. You deserve to have your daughter and she deserves to see how much you love her. I’m a single mom. I don’t have an addiction but I do have depression. Bipolar II. Fibromyalgia. I’m not a perfect mom. I am a single mom. I choose my daughter. It’s NOT easy. And I don’t think that overcoming an addiction is simple. But I know she can do it. Please.

This. This one got to me. I was wondering which one I’d resonate with, not that I use, only marijuana but the neglectful childhood, this resonated with me to the point I cried WITH her. This is like a look into the future of what my life could be like if I let my childhood and past take over my life. I pray for your healing Heather, all you needed was to be nurtured and loved.

Wow! Non stop talking! Had to stop half way to take a break.

I can only dread to think how difficult her life has been and still is, but a point comes in life where the victim becomes the perpetrator. She is inflicting the sort of pain she went through as a child and feeling unwanted onto her own child. Trauma breeds trauma. I think it’s time to dry up and mum up and use the good brain you still have access to and get help to clean up your act. I hope you do because I see a lot of potential in you. I think you are very intelligent and way too smart for this lifestyle.

this woman can go so far. she's built for it. she literally looks like she could clean up & work in corporate. i hope she is well. 💓🦋

As much as my heart grieves for the pain addicts live with, the thought of their children living through their addiction is utterly heartbreaking. No child deserves to have their parent stolen from them by addiction. Thanks for your brilliant work. You are giving a voice to those society ignores. So important to hear their stories.

“I gave her anything she needed” no...she didn’t need the fancy house, the pool, etc..she needed her mommy. You bought her all kinds of material things because (like you said) you had nothing growing up..But she needed her mommy, not material things!

"A man has as many masters as he has vices". Saint Augustine.

Eugene Oregon that is all

Heather, please take care of yourself and your health. Your little girl needs, loves and wants you!!!!!

Every single one of these people are covered in tattoos. If you are a young person and debating whether to get tatted up. You should realize that a lot of job markets will not be open to you. These people are stuck in this lifestyle because of bad decisions. Alcohol and weed usually are the stepping stones to addiction. It isnt cool, it isnt harmless. Its not any ones fault but their own and until they come to terms with that, they will just keep blaming and feeling the victim.

Please she is just feeling sorry for herself.

"Yr guilt keeps u sick, & keeps u away from the ppl u love the most." Addiction is indeed a carousel of doom , but shame is the ticket to ride w/no expiration date.

She was easy to listen to. No cussing, posturing or sleaziness.

I hope heather got sober and was reunited with her daughter

She could easily make it out. She is battling with her locus of evaluation. It is mostly internal, which provides hope, but she could do with trying to eliminate the external locus that seems to be holding her back. She says she isn't ready yet but how much lower does she want to go? If she leaves it for much longer, it will so much harder to make it back out. I wish her all the best.

Praying for you Heather. Be careful out there and God bless 🙏

Didn't realize your daughters name is the same as mine till I rewound/ listened a second time. What a coincindence. I pray to God that you find the strength, and peace within your life to give your Ashley the Mom/life she deserves. Sometimes, like myself, it may take medication maintenance to get to that point, but regardless, she would be better off with you even if it means having to take suboxone, methadone, etc. To stabilize yourself until you're strong enough to do it on your own

Learn to trust YOURSELF & God. That's more than enough. Only unconditional love I got was from a dog and God. Don't rely on these nitwit men you are attracting.

It's hard when you lose your kids and you are trying to stay sober through the pain I did it for seven years to get my kids back

The cities need to shut down the tent cities. Having large concentrations of people with addictions is a terrible idea.

“And, I’m drinking because I didn’t know what to do.” I’m sure the courts and/CPS told you EXACTLY what you need to do to get your daughter back.

One of the few addicts on these vids who could get sober and her past wouldn't still be reflected on her face and throughout her body. She has big, strong hands. I think her heart is too.

God bless her!

Heroin takes the soul of any one who tries it.

Watching this 10 months after it was uploaded I wonder where she is.

Thankyou for sharing its nice hearing certain things that make you feel less alone.

Shame on her plastic surgeon for prescribing opioids to someone with a history of addiction. The insane thing is it related to a needless surgery.

She makes a-lot of excuses for her father, more than anyone. Interesting to see.

Mark Im On Every few Hrs To See what's Uploaded...The truth On the Streets.Its truly the best Real Raw Videos About Life and which direction it goes.......Nail ON THE HEAD.......GODBLESS ALL

addition from money to food to sex- human condition. not to many free people.

I am praying for the peace within her

Her self pity, crying and whining are insufferable.

Wow Heather, I hope you get the help you need and reclaim the life that you want. It's all so tragic. Go to rehab, you can do it.

Don't give up Heather. Please. Don't give up. Your daughter needs you and you need her. I know you are hurting. I know your pain cant even be put into words. But know that there are so many other women that will love you and wrap their arms around you and support you and know the deep pain you are in. Please don't give up. You have such a beautiful heart and soul.

Just the fact that the interviewer barely got a word in is enough to point to meth use. People on meth don't stop talking or fidgeting

Heather....Your daughter is your Angel Baby. Please use the strength I know you have and get yourself in rehab. She needs you and you need her! Remember you were once a lil girl that was missing that unconditional love....don't let the cycle repeat! I have faith in you.....You are stronger than you think! Please do it for you and your baby girl!

I'm a ex addict ...im clean about 12 year's ...this people r like us ...they need help ...my help was family ...my heart r with all that still on drugs If I can do it ..everyone can ...bless them all . Elsa from Portugal

She’s clever and intelligent... she reminds me of Caroline.. I just hope she won’t be following her footsteps. I pray for you Heather, remember it’s only up to you to change and it’s possible. Never give up until you at least give it a go! It’s never too late! Please try!

Her pain is profound..🙏 Shes in WAY over her head. This is a life or death situation.

This story is a great example of how addiction affects anyone anywhere any race and any class and how easy it is to fall from the top to bottom really quick!!!!

Girl could talk under water opiates used to make me extremely talkative

She reminds me of Caroline. A little nervous for what’s to come 😞

Heroin... it’s sad to think that that word would ever have anything to do with me. Yet it’s the biggest part of my story. I stopped injecting it after four years. I got on methadone and started snorting again. I fell asleep in a handicapped parking space and cops woke me up I should have went to jail but something was taking care of me. They did not find the dope That was stuck To a dvd on the drivers seat

I love this channel and hearing the stories. But for some reason this just sounded like 40 minutes of excuses and lack of really trying & never actually, truly owning up to her own “ugliness.” Such a waste. I hope her daughter is able to break the cycle 😥.

Im praying and thinking of you. You are in a bad circle, BUT there is hope for you. One step at æ time. Dont give up. I will lift you up in my prayers. And you have one who loves you deeply.....JESUS. And also your daughter. Hang in girl. Begin your New life and get help. There is hope for you. Drugs is fake feelings.

This girl is really good at lying... How easy it is for these people to cast blame and judge everyone elsee but they don't want to be judged

Why do I watch these videos? I don't believe most of what they say and they're just there for a quick 20 bucks.

Couldn't make it more than 1/3 of the way thru. Listening to a person with zero sense of responsibility is worse than nails on a chalkboard to me.

I love that this plattform allows for them to open up and tell their story, Thank you Mark.

Even before she said she is a giver, I sensed that Heather really ought to put herself in a situation of helping others. She needs that. She needs a purpose and needs to feel useful. Not just useful to her daughter but to a wider range of people and regain some self-esteem. It's hard to be a parent when you have no hope in life. But when you are actively contributing to make the world better, you move on in life without anxiety because you know that you are part of the solution and not part of the problem. When she sobers up, Heather really ought to make that move towards helping others right away. I truly feel that it could save her life.

She said a whole bunch of nothing

INTERVIEWER. Get her into a Nuns Home OR Therapy!!!NOW!!😁 Seriously, they will help her with structure and self esteem as a Individual.