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I was living out of my car. I was riding around making meth. It was midnight, and I had to pull over at a McDonald’s because I hadn’t slept for a month. A Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputy saw me, and he realized what was going on, so he made me get out of my car and take my clothes off. They were scrubbing me with a brush from a fire engine because they were worried about contamination from the meth lab. All this was happening while people were coming in and getting their coffee … it was absolutely horrible … but it was also the date I got sober.
— Lewis Blanche, a former solo practitioner in Louisiana, describing the day when he turned his life around after being addicted to drugs, ranging from heroin to methamphetamines. Blanche is now a partner at the Detox Center of Louisiana and owner of three sober living homes.
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