‘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
Tara MacIsaac
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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.”