How a Brisbane schoolgirl became a drug addict, then made her way back

By Ross McSwain
Updated August 28 2016 - 10:39pm, first published August 20 2016 - 10:37pm
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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