Honesty Liller, CEO of McShin Foundation, and her team are celebrating the opening of a recovery home dedicated to pregnant women and women with young children.
Honesty Liller started using drugs when she was 12.
“I just wanted to fit in with my friends,” she said. It was the start of a rocky journey that Liller, now 40, said took her to many dark places and made her a very different person.
“With a name like Honesty I would lie, lie, lie,” she added. But when she was 26 years old,
a phone call with her father made her realize the “living hell” she had put her family through. That’s when she decided to reach out for help.
Liller’s story is one in a widespread opioid crisis that has gripped the US since the late 1990s. Since 1999 the number of drug overdose deaths has quadrupled, with nearly 500,000 people dying from an overdose involving an opioid between 1999 and 2019, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.