She Staged Her Own Accident: The Realms of Drug Abuse

In August on a Friday evening my children and I were setting up for Family Game Night. I excused myself to use the bathroom. While I was in there, I heard the sound of a lound motor running in my driveway. I didn't recognize the motor. I continued listening. I heard what sounded like a whiney child talking outside with my husband. My husband sounded frustrated. I quickly scrambled from the bathroom to see what was going on. I made my way into the livingroom and found my children sitting on the couch with looks of disgust on their faces. I asked them what was going on. My daughter spoke up and said "Alicia". I asked what she wanted. My daughter told me she needed a place to stay and was crying and whining. At first my husband said no but when she continued to whine like a three-year-old my husband said whatever.

I hadn't seen Alicia since 2006 when she was involved in the ATV accident. When she came in I studied her. She was shaking all over as she put her bag down. Pot-bellied. Sagging skin and deep wrinkles all over her face. Dead looking eyes. I mentally figured her age. She just turned 27. Looks more like 40. She apologized to me for any inconvenience. I wondered why she was here? Abortion again? Usually she comes around once every year or two looking for attention from us pro-lifes because she gets an abortion. Then it hit me. I had just read in the newspaper that she broke felony probation for trying to steal a coffee from, get this, a Dunkin Donuts. How the heck do you do that? Was she hiding from the fuzz?

She had some pocket change on her. Enough to buy a soda and a pack of smokes. We drive her to the corner store because princess doesn't want to walk. While my husband and Ali are in the store my youngest son, Mr. Cop-Wannabe, looks real nervous. He asks me if you can get in trouble for letting someone stay with you who's hiding from the cops. I said yes. Why? He tells me he heard his sister say the cops are after her for skipping court and she's wanted on 5 or 6 felony warrants.

On the way home she asks where the nearest hospital is. We told her Huggins about 40 minutes away. She knows the place well having been there during the ATV accident. She freaks out. We ask why. She said just in case there's an emergency and she needs to call 911 and go. We ask why would she need to go? She said she would explain later. She was popping hydrocodone. Hurting very bad because she was down to only a few. I checked the bottle when she wasn't looking to verify that it was in fact hers.

It turned out to be hers. She obtained it by purposely hammering her own finger. This girl is really screwed up. Now she was in my home wanting to stage another accident in front of my children to obtain more drugs? She pulls up her sleeves and shows the children the tracks in her arm from injecting the pills which is her preferred method. I was constantly pulling her aside to remind her to stop with her stories in front of the children.

I hated like hell to do this but I had no choice. I couldn't have her at my home behaving in such a manner around my children. I called the police who told me they could do nothing because the warrants were from another state. It didn't matter that they were felony. What a load. She left after two days. She refused to turn herself in because she claimed she was to scared. That was an excuse of an addict. If she is in jail she will be unable to use and she is not ready to come clean. That is the real reason why she won't turn herself in.

It was all very upsetting. She had once been a beautiful child with such wonderful dreams. Straight A student dreaming to go to college and become a storm chaser or a chef. Now she can't remember from one second to the next. She doesn't eat. She consumes medication. Her choice is morphine. She has a very low attention span. She has an STD from sharing needles. Her role model? Well her mother and her sister have been breaking into houses in their town to support their habit. Oh, that coffee she tried stealing was for her mother. Her mother never gets busted. Just the children.