Raised in the church by her mother, Aubrey Powell found herself bargaining with God at age 29 just to help her get high. But God, she says today, had other plans.
She was 14 when her father, a longtime addict, offered her a hit of meth. By 15, she was injecting heroin, a habit that consumed the next 15 years of her life as she spiraled into addiction and incarceration.
Then, a year before her 30th birthday, she met a man named Jon in rehab. They fell in love and planned to move in together. After they were discharged, he stayed sober, but she immediately relapsed…