Former addict's astounding transformation to college graduate: 'Consider starting today'
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Ginny Burton posted two photos that showed how far she has come in her addiction recovery.
In May, ahead of the ceremony, Burton, now 48, shared one of her graduation photos alongside a mugshot that was taken in 2005 during "one of the most intense times" of her addiction, Burton told Fox News, at a time when she "had a tremendous heroin habit" and was "smoking a lot of crack cocaine." "It was almost like I was watching my life from the outside. I started using and then I couldn’t stop and I wanted to stop and I could not stop for anything." "Eventually I was able to actually look myself in the eyes and tell myself that I love myself. So that’s what I’ve done every day for the last almost 9 years as I’ve reaffirmed those messages." "I specifically shared those [pictures] for that purpose, to show the contrast and to say I don’t care where you’re from, what you’ve done, what your life looks like and how old you are. We can do this."
"I just thought that, besides the fact that there was such a vast contrast there and it just really for me, it just showed the depth of my journey in those two photos," Burton told Fox.
As September's National Recovery Month comes to a close, Burton spoke with Fox News about her own recovery journey.
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