KY: A Family's Meth Addiction

BOWLING GREEN, KY - NOVEMBER 30: Linda at Sandy's house preparing her Meth to inject on November 30, 2005 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Right after she shot up the Meth she also shoot up Dulidid. She calls this speedball. (the Meth makes you be awake, and the Dulidid, a pain killer brings you down) Linda (40) has been a Meth addict for several years. She is on the run from the police, and is facing a three year sentence. She has been more than 15 times in jail since she started using Meth, and three of her four children are in foster care (She was arrested recently after someone tipped off the police on her whereabouts, and will be in prison for three years. She told us she will not run when the police find her, because being in jail is the only way for her to stop taking drugs..) Meth users can stay awake for many days at a time, and sometimes weeks. Linda told us, that her record is 28 days without sleeping. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images)
BOWLING GREEN, KY - NOVEMBER 30: Linda at Sandy's house preparing her Meth to inject on November 30, 2005 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Right after she shot up the Meth she also shoot up Dulidid. She calls this speedball. (the Meth makes you be awake, and the Dulidid, a pain killer brings you down) Linda (40) has been a Meth addict for several years. She is on the run from the police, and is facing a three year sentence. She has been more than 15 times in jail since she started using Meth, and three of her four children are in foster care (She was arrested recently after someone tipped off the police on her whereabouts, and will be in prison for three years. She told us she will not run when the police find her, because being in jail is the only way for her to stop taking drugs..) Meth users can stay awake for many days at a time, and sometimes weeks. Linda told us, that her record is 28 days without sleeping. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images)
KY: A Family's Meth Addiction
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