Addiction is common but is always a sore subject to talk about. Millions of people in the United States struggle with drug addiction. Many come out alive some but some are less fortunate and do not. Kaleigh’s battle with addiction has taught her to appreciate a life lived sober.

Kaleigh started her battle with addiction when she was put on Adderall by a doctor at the age of thirteen years old. She was then taken off nine months later. Ever since then she's chased the feeling she got from the pills on and off until eighteen. At the age of fourteen, she started taking heroin. Later on, she quit heroin when she overdosed in the school bathroom 6 days after her 16th birthday. At the age of fourteen, she started to drink alcohol.

While she was addicted to cocaine at the age of 15 she later ended up quitting. When in the middle of an abusive relationship that lasted a year and a half she figured out she was pregnant with her oldest son through it all she was Verbally and physically abused by her Boyfriend.  She stopped doing everything when she got into trouble with the law and they said they were going to send her to prison for 25 years to life and she would lose her son if she didn't follow her probation.

She overcame her drug addiction for her family. She lost everything during her addiction: her house, her family, her life, her car, and her son. She also overcame her addiction knowing her husband and kids needed her.

Sometimes going through struggles can shape our lives in a good way. She had many struggles leading to one big one and they led her back to the right path which was being a sober person. Millions of people in the United States struggle with drug addiction Kaleigh is not only my sister but she's one of many that made it out alive.