‘I Can Change My Story’: Addiction Recovery Journey Boosted by Helping Others

‘I Can Change My Story’: Addiction Recovery Journey Boosted by Helping Others
Libby Szarka recovered from addiction in 2008 and now helps others at Poundmaker’s Lodge treatment centre in Edmonton. Courtesy of Libby Szarka
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Libby Szarka looked around at the people who had become her “new family.” They were a poor comparison to the family she had left behind—three daughters, the youngest only 8 when Ms. Szarka started living on the streets of Calgary, dealing and smoking crack.

“They wouldn’t think twice to stab you up for a hoot if they needed one,” Ms. Szarka told The Epoch Times. “And then even worse, I was the same.”