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Credit: Andrea Morales From the outside, Kimberly Ladd s life seemed to be going well in 2007. The wife of an Army combat veteran who had done tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, Ladd was raising two young daughters in Spring Hill, Tenn., while working as a corporate trainer, a job she loved. But she had a dark secret: She was addicted to opioids. I couldn t feel without them, she says. At the worst of it, it s all you can think of. Her addiction began after she took a few of her father s leftover pain pills to cope with severe headaches, and it spiraled as her own prescription ran out and she looked for ways to cope with stress in her marriage. The more you use, the more your body needs, says Ladd, now 45. Very quickly things get out of control.

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