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SUCCESS: After teen addiction, woman is on path to sobriety

 
By Ken Raymond | Published: July 28, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Katie Marino tried marijuana the first time because she was curious.

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"I wonder if it really is like ‘Alice in Wonderland,'” she thought. "I wonder if it's going to make Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd sound so much better.”

Nope. It just made things worse.

"It actually scared me to death the first time I got high,” she said. "Like, I literally thought I was dead and in hell. It scared the crap out of me.”

But it didn't scare her enough. She tried it again and again, and at 14, she found herself relying on drugs to help her get through each day.

Isolated by loneliness, teen angst and grief at the deaths of three of her grandparents, Katie started using just about anything she could get her hands on: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, even combinations of over-the-counter medicines. None of it was difficult to obtain.

"Most of the stuff I got was free,” said Katie, who is now 20. "It was what other people had, and they were just sharing because I was there, and I was their friend, and it probably didn't hurt that I was a chick. I mean, I rarely paid for my own stuff.”

Some of her friends scored drugs from their parents who were drug abusers, she said.

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