Source: YouTube.com: wcvbtv
Published: Sat, 7 Nov 2009
Description: More women are turning to self-medicating with alcohol and drugs to help them balance the challenges of work and family.
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" A tragic last summer in New Jersey a mother drunken high on marijuana kills eight people including her own child she hit her drug use just like a lot of women do. Tonight a local woman's battle to come clean. How the 24 Ali gave you. Want to file with the forty year old Michelle Taylor battled addiction for years. And now one. For the little pin. For the national -- call Kate and you have -- been a little bit. Can you. Another plane. At least I thought they. Fourth time that worked until the day it nearly killed her last three months of my heroin use. Cause me and heart protection. Accidental. And every day -- I. That was the turning point it doesn't have to take that for persons. Most people never even knew who I was hooked -- economic. A lot I mentioned how afraid of the stigma. -- a lot of fear. -- people knowing what can only say. That fear is not unusual but in the top turbulent times -- more women are becoming hidden addicts sometimes with deadly consequences. Let them -- Long Island New York. Mother was at the wheel of this crash that killed eight people including her own two year old daughter. Sky Angel a husband and that she was on impaired and are. But toxicology -- shall Diane was stoned on marijuana and drunk. FBI show the trends the number of men arrested for drunk driving down but I'm sharply for women who live and they need today. You know under a lot of pressure Ruth Kelly is a behavioral health service directorate and to -- enter. Whether it's a lot of a job whether -- and the getting -- a way to cope with a way to relieve pain in our youth and -- only albums. Everything. The -- of who has been clean for almost three years now and knows she's come a long way from those dark game you have to released a shame the guilt. Only half of call for help save your life. And -- that that's not one of them completely with DP or -- On the change. How would cook clean and pretty soon. You're."