“The first thing she started out with was marijuana and her boyfriend introduced her to that. I could smell something but I never put two and two together or I just had blinders on as a mom I guess because I never noticed it,” said Jo-Ann.
“I would leave school and go to friend’s house whose parents were comfortable with that lifestyle for their children and allowed them to do drugs in the house. I found I could just spend my days there,” added Casandra.
In her first year of high school in Collingwood, Casandra missed 384 out of 400 classes. And her drug problem was getting worse. Her parents couldn’t figure out how to help.
“During that time I thought that was the only way of life and I had to find more by whatever means and I did some pretty crazy things to get drugs.”
“When I went into her room to get her up for school and she opened her eyes and she looked at me and said ‘I’m giving you five seconds to be out of the room or you’re going to be dead.’ And she would come off like a cat and sent me across the room into the closet literally,” says Jo-Ann.
“I just became necessary every day to feed this habit and this way of life because nothing else would make me feel better at that time,” said Casandra.
When she was 15, Casandra left home with no real place to go.
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