“I’m thankful now that the cop did take the picture,” she told NBC News. “I've decided to repost the picture simply because it displays exactly what heroin addiction is,” she wrote. “Also because I do not want to ever forget where the road of addiction has taken me. Specifically, heroin overdose deaths have quadrupled since 2010, accounting for nearly 13,000 deaths in 2015, according to the data. Being able to see what her addiction looked like — and understand how it would affect her son — enabled her to overcome it, she said.

Source: Washington Post October 27, 2017 15:32 UTC