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Recovery from meth mess saves women.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 26-JUL-02 		Format: Online - approximately 1067 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Recovery from meth mess saves women.(Family)(Drugs: Former addicts get their lives back and their kids back through intensive, women-only treatment.)

Article Excerpt
Byline: SUSAN PALMER The Register-Guard

Methamphetamine can make you do almost anything: live with a drug dealer you despise, steal even though you were raised to know better, forget your children in a drug-induced frenzy and then ignore them when the drug dumps you in a lethargic heap.

Liberty Mauch, 23, and Amanda Fields, 32, described the lows of their drugging days frankly, but they looked haunted when they talked about losing their kids.

Child welfare workers took them away. What churns the women up inside, looking back, is how even that low wasn't enough to get them to give up meth, not right away. It just sent them into a deeper spiral of binge drugging, often so messed up they didn't bother to attend scheduled visits with their children.

But that's in the past.

Mauch hasn't touched meth in almost two years. Fields has been off the drug for 18 months.

And Micki Knuckles thinks that they and...

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