Peggie used to feel out of touch with the crowd. People were around, but wouldn’t help.
“My first drink was eureka, my savior, everything was made right. Drinking was my elixir.” Soon, Peggie blacked out every time she drank.
She also used cocaine, amphetamine, and heroin.
The men in her life were physically and emotionally abusive. Peggie thinks she was “addicted to bad relationships.”