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When you’re a heroin addict you are either using, clean, or dead–there is nothing in-between.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.
– Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

Any opioid-based painkiller can lead to addiction. Opioid derivatives – or narcotics – are commonly used in prescription painkillers. Morphine, oxymorphone (Opana ER), oxycodone (Oxycontin, Oxecta), hydrocodone (Zohydro ER), codeine, methadone, and fentanyl are examples of the potent opiate medications at the center of the U.S. addiction epidemic.

If TEARS could build a stairway and MEMORIES a lane, I would walk right up to HEAVEN and bring you home again.

Ye have lost a child—nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere.

-Samuel Rutherford

If you have been diagnosed with breast cancer, you are already a survivor. According to the National Cancer Institute, a person is considered a survivor on the day that they are diagnosed and throughout the rest of their life.

When someone dies by suicide, research shows that at least 6 people are intimately traumatized by the death. Those who are directly affected include immediate family members, relatives, neighbors, friends, fellow students and/or co-workers. And because 90% of people who die by suicide have a psychological disorder, mental health clinicians are…[Read more]

This type of abuse includes any unwanted sexual act forced on the victim. This form of abuse is also often known as sexual assault or rape. Sexual abuse can include anything from unwanted touching to forced intercourse or forced sexual contact with another person.