• Abstinence

    - the state of being without a drug, as alcohol or heroin, on
    which one is dependent.

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    She needed it.

    It was her heroin, her drug.

    Every day she took a large dose, sometimes twice a day –
    sometimes she just couldn’t stop.

    In many ways it was taking over her life. She was in constant
    fear of people discovering her dark secret, her addiction.

    Her parents had no idea what was going on. Some of her friends
    knew, and even were on the edge or in the abyss of the
    addiction as well.

    But people wouldn’t understand.

    And so, when her parents peeked through her door, she
    hurriedly closed her laptop to avoid them seeing the graphic
    images of the two men on the screen.