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Ginny Burton: She Fought Valiantly With Her Addictions And Won!

Hope Is Always There, Time Can Heal

By PanteraPublished about a year ago 4 min read
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Cover Picture by darksouls1 on Pixabay

It takes time and courage to stand up after multiple failures and take control of our life.

No matter how low we reach and where we’ve been, we can always fix things, mature, and fight back.

Drugs don’t have the same effect on everyone, yet everyone is vulnerable and may enter a devastating journey with no obvious escape. Drug addicts have to rise to the challenge and defeat their demons.

Many of us went close there at a young age. Perhaps it was a magical force that stopped us from sinking into an abyss with destructive consequences. Some didn’t have the same defenses.

It is not always about drugs. Sometimes we enter this destructive zone without any addiction. We think we failed so many times, and we just quit.

Apathy engulfs us.

Ginny Burton, is a symbol of how everyone can fight back and assume control of their life.

Former Addict’s Tranformation Into A College Graduate and Pro-Life Advocate

This image presents a message of hope for everyone.

A glorious comeback from a place some of our fellow human beings disintegrate into, often without even realizing it.

Ginny Burton today is 49 years old, a mother of three, with a degree in Political Science from the University of Washington.

However, as we can imagine, she did not get a normal life.

Before achieving her dreams, Ginny hit rock bottom.

She was trying to overcome heroin and crack addiction, but could not handle the pressure in the first few years, and she was always relapsing.

She needed seven more years to overcome her addictions and become a modern hero, an example for every lost soul.

She did not choose that lifestyle either. Ginny wanted to be a judge. She had dreams, but nobody gave her the opportunity. She had to grab it on her own after realizing the futility of her actions. Drugs are not an escape but a prison.

Nobody chooses this lifestyle. Do you think we can make the right choice and be mature enough with all the information regarding the side effects and the chemical reactions drugs cause?

Ginny was taking drugs from a very young age. So young, she could not possibly realize any of the dangers.

She grew up in a dysfunctional family with no support from her community.

By her twenties, she lost control of her drug habits and spent time in jail. She was fighting her addiction and stayed clean for a year but relapsed.

Heroin is no joke.

All addictions bring severe effects on our body and mind.

I suggest reading her whole story and visiting Ginny’s website:

A story that will make many realize a few things about these people and that their choices are not plenty or easy.

They have to locate that small window of opportunity in the dark room they got trapped in, and escape once and for all.

It takes courage but also support from families and our communities. First, we have to stop disregarding drug addicts. Everyone can overcome addictions, they only need support from us to find a new and better way.

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Addicts may seem to be lost souls, but they are not gone forever.

Taking control of your life and fighting back will pay off in the long run.

But, it is up to all of us, our societies, as one force to cease stigmatizing vulnerable people but treat them as equals, as they deserve all the second chances we can give them. Everyone has to allow them at least that.

Closing Thoughts

I recently published an article about Tiffany Whitton and her mysterious disappearence:

From the Facebook page Find Tiffany Whiton, I discovered this inspirational story which I believe can inspire confidence in anyone in a desperate state and encourage them to find the inner strength and accomplish what they think is impossible.

Tiffany’s relatives are doing important work hosting stories of missing people and promoting a message of hope.

They created this page not only for Tiffany but for all those vulnerable individuals that may cause some trouble, but they are not too far from realizing their mistakes and evolving into productive members of our society.

No lost soul deserves our ignorance. Time can transform people and make them valuable to our communities.

We all have done things we regretted, and sometimes we wish we could undo them.

We carry these mistakes with us until we find someone to point us to the righteous path, enabling our inner strength.

Young people unable to cope with dysfunctional families and a demanding society think drugs are an escape. They can be for a short time, but this is only an illusion, a temporary state of euphoria that doesn’t last.

Cover Picture by darksouls1 on Pixabay

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