From schoolgirl to drug addict and back again

By Ross McSwain
Updated August 21 2016 - 7:46am, first published 7:33am
Slowly, step by step, brick by brick Maree is getting her daughter Jenna back after a decade of drug dependence. Photo: Supplied
Slowly, step by step, brick by brick Maree is getting her daughter Jenna back after a decade of drug dependence. Photo: Supplied

She first used drugs to dull the pain from a ruptured disc in her back. The doctors prescribed oxycodone, a highly addictive painkiller that she would come to know it by its multiple street names, hillbilly heroin, Oxy or simply O. 

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